Jude says Michael would not hurl an abusive judgment at the devil; he said, “The Lord rebuke thee.” Zechariah 3 uses the same striking rebuke language when the LORD answers the accuser. That repeated phrase is the clearest Bible-to-Bible verbal link behind Jude 9.

Zechariah 3 gives Jude two related rescue-and-defilement images. The strongest link is Zechariah’s “brand plucked out of the fire” beside Jude’s command to save others “pulling them out of the fire.” The same Zechariah scene also removes Joshua’s filthy garments, which may help illuminate Jude’s secondary warning about a garment “spotted by the flesh.”

Jude’s “The Lord rebuke thee” wording closely matches the rebuke of the accuser in Zechariah 3. The verbal link is strong, but Jude’s dispute involving Michael is not the same event as Joshua’s cleansing vision.

Jude’s rescue-from-fire language strongly recalls Zechariah’s “brand plucked out of the fire,” while the garment correspondence is more tentative.