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Allusion
Later text
And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Here is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD. Yes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two.'
Earlier text
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
Jeremiah 23:5-6 is the first text to make the Branch explicitly Davidic and royal: "I will raise up for David a righteous Branch (ṣemaḥ ṣaddîq), and He will reign wisely as King... and this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness." Zechariah 6:12-13 takes up Jeremiah's ṣemaḥ and brings it to its climactic naming and enthronement: "Here is a man whose name is the Branch... He will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne." Jeremiah supplies the royal-and-righteous Branch with the divine name; Zechariah adds the decisive new element — the same Branch is also a priest, reuniting in one figure the two offices Israel's order kept apart. The connection is Promise-Fulfillment within the canon, developed along the Davidic-Branch Longitudinal Theme: Zechariah does not merely repeat Jeremiah but escalates him, fusing the royal Branch of Jer 23 with priestly office and temple-building work. The telos: the Branch is "righteous" not as a distant ideal but as the One who is "The LORD Our Righteousness" — so that the trajectory ends not in admiring a perfect king from afar but in receiving Him as the believer's own righteousness, a Christ to be desired because in Him justice and salvation meet.