Zechariah 6:11
Context6:11 Then take some silver and gold to make a crown 1 and set it on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
Zechariah 13:6
Context13:6 Then someone will ask him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ 2 and he will answer, ‘Some that I received in the house of my friends.’
1 tn Heb “crowns” (so KJV, ASV; also in v. 14). The Hebrew word for “crown” here is עֲטֶרֶת (’ateret), a term never used in the OT for the priestly crown or mitre. Thus, the scene here describes the investing of the priest with royal authority.
2 tn Heb “wounds between your hands.” Cf. NIV “wounds on your body”; KJV makes this more specific: “wounds in thine hands.”
sn These wounds on your chest. Pagan prophets were often self-lacerated (Lev 19:28; Deut 14:1; 1 Kgs 18:28) for reasons not entirely clear, so this false prophet betrays himself as such by these graphic and ineradicable marks.