Shabbat Chanukah - Sabbath of Chanukah.

Chanukah Haftarah:

Zechariah 2:10-to-end,3.,4:1-7. (JPS=Zechariah 2:14-to-end,3.,4:1-7).

10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,’ says YHWH!
11 Many nations shall join themselves to YHWH in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that YHWH of Hosts has sent me to you.
12 YHWH will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
13 Be silent, all flesh, before YHWH; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Vision of the High Priest. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of YHWH, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
2 YHWH said to Satan, “YHWH rebuke you, Satan! Yes, YHWH who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”
3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
4 He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off of him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”
5 I said, “Let them set a clean turban on his head.” So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the angel of YHWH was standing by.

6 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Coming Branch. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

The angel of YHWH protested to Joshua, saying,
7 “Thus says YHWH of Hosts: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
8 Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, the Branch.
9 For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says YHWH of Hosts, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
10 In that day,’ says YHWH of Hosts, ‘you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig-tree.’”

1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Vision of the Lampstand and Olive Trees. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.

The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
2 He said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I have seen, and behold, a menorah all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
3 and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.”
4 I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my master?”
5 Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?” I said, “No, my master.”
6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is the word of YHWH to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says YHWH of Hosts.
7 Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”

! ! End of Today’s Feast Scriptures! Praise Yah! (HNV-yet version, in the public domain.)

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