Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

The house

Bible References

The house

Zechariah 12:7
The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of David’s house and the glory of Jerusalem’s residents may not be greater than that of Judah.

Uncleanness

Leviticus 15:2
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his body, he is unclean.
Numbers 19:9
“A man who is clean is to gather up the cow’s ashes and deposit them outside the camp in a ceremonially clean place. The ashes must be kept by the Israelite community for preparing the water to remove impurity; it is a sin offering.
Ezekiel 36:17
“Son of man, while the house of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions. Their behavior before Me was like menstrual impurity.

General references

Exodus 40:7
Place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
Leviticus 15:27
Everyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Leviticus 16:19
He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse and set it apart from the Israelites’ impurities.
Jeremiah 33:8
I will purify them from all the wrongs they have committed against Me, and I will forgive all the wrongs they have committed against Me, rebelling against Me.
Matthew 5:4
Those who mourn are blessed,
for they will be comforted.

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