Zechariah 6:10

Take of them. In the eight visions of chs. 1:7 to 6:8 Zechariah was an observer only. It may be that the instructions here given the prophet were to be carried out as a part of the inaugural ceremony of Joshua as high priest, at the time the Temple services were reinstituted.

Of the captivity. Some have suggested that the three men were representatives from the Jews that were still in Babylon who had come with gifts for the Temple. Instead of their names the LXX gives the symbolic meaning of the three names: “the chief men,” “the useful men,” and “those that have understood it.”

Josiah. Some have suggested that he was the son of the Zephaniah of 2 Kings 25:18, who was of the “second” order of the priests during the closing years of the kingdom of Judah (see Jer. 21:1; 37:3). However, the fact that the capture of Jerusalem (see 2 Kings 25:18-21) was some 70 years in the past, makes it highly unlikely that Zephaniah was the father of the Josiah of the present narrative, unless Josiah was extremely old.