Text: Zechariah 4:7
OT Text Referred to: Psalm 118:22
Subject: The rejected cornerstone
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Ps 118:22 — The Stone the Builders Rejected
Significance: Zechariah 4:7 describes Zerubbabel bringing forth "the capstone" (הָאֶבֶן הָרֹאשָׁה, ha'even haroshshah, literally "the head/top stone") accompanied by shouts of "Grace, grace to it!" Psalm 118:22 celebrates "the stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone (לְרֹאשׁ פִּנָּה, lerosh pinnah, literally 'head of the corner')." Both texts feature a significant stone designated as "head/chief" (רֹאשׁ, rosh) that completes a building project amid acclamation. Zechariah's capstone crowns the temple rebuilding, while Psalm 118's cornerstone emerges from rejection to prominence. The shared stone-and-acclamation imagery connects temple completion with vindication, suggesting that God's building projects advance through apparent weakness ("not by might nor by power," 4:6) to triumphant completion.
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Text: Psalms 118:22
OT Text Referred to: Zechariah 4:7
Subject: Rejected stone (C)
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Ps 118:22 — The Stone the Builders Rejected
Significance: Psalm 118:22's "stone the builders rejected" becoming the "cornerstone" (רֹאשׁ פִּנָּה, rosh pinnah) resonates with Zechariah 4:7, where Zerubbabel is told "he will bring out the capstone (הָאֶבֶן הָרֹאשָׁה, ha'even haroshah) with shouts of 'Grace, grace to it!'" Both texts feature a stone that seems insignificant or discarded by human assessment but is divinely designated as the crowning element. Zechariah's context is the rebuilding of the Second Temple under Zerubbabel — a project that seemed contemptible to those who remembered Solomon's temple. The shared "head stone" language connects the Psalm's rejection-reversal theme to Zechariah's temple-rebuilding promise.