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Zechariah 11:1 open_in_new
Open, to. Figure of speech Apostrophe. App-6.
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Zechariah 11:2 open_in_new
fir. cypress.
for. If the cedar is fallen, how much more the cypress.
the. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "all the".
mighty. honourable, or majestic ones.
forest of the vintage. the inaccessible forest.
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Zechariah 11:3 open_in_new
shepherds. the rulers of the State.
young lions. The rapacious nobles.
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Zechariah 11:4 open_in_new
Thus saith. Thus hath said the Lord. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
Feed. Tend. Zechariah is to represent. good shepherd, and is sent to the People whose rulers destroyed them (verses: Zechariah 11:5; Zechariah 11:16).
of. exposed to, or destined for slaughter. Genitive of Relation App-17. Compare Romans 8:36.
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Zechariah 11:5 open_in_new
am rich. am become rich, [and therefore can sell them cheaply].
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Zechariah 11:6 open_in_new
saith the LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle.
men, Hebrew. 'adam. App-14.
every one. Hebrew. 'ish, App-14.
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Zechariah 11:7 open_in_new
And. will feed. So. [Zechariah] tended.
even you,. poor of the flock. Reading the two words (in Hebrew) as one word (with the Septuagint) it should be "for the sheep-traffickers", as in Zechariah 14:21 ("Caaanite").
I took. Compare verses: Zechariah 11:7; Zechariah 11:10; Zechariah 11:13; Zechariah 11:15 with Zechariah 6:10; Zechariah 6:11.
staves. Which shepherds use; the crook or staff, and the club. See note on Psalms 23:4,
Beauty. Graciousness,
Bands. Union.
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Zechariah 11:8 open_in_new
cut off. sent off. They are unnamed.
soul, Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
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Zechariah 11:9 open_in_new
that, &c.. the dying will die.
eat every one, &c.: i.e. destroy one another.
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Zechariah 11:10 open_in_new
people. peoples: i.e. here, tribes.
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Zechariah 11:11 open_in_new
the poor of the flock. the sheep-traflickers; as Zechariah 11:7.
waited upon. were watching me (1Sa 1:12. 1 Samuel 19:11.Psalms 59, title).
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Zechariah 11:12 open_in_new
price. wage.
thirty pieces of silver. The damages for injury done to. servant. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 21:32). This is not the passage referred to in Matthew 27:9. Sec App-161. That was "spoken" by Jeremiah; this was written by Zechariah.
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Zechariah 11:13 open_in_new
Cast it. As in Genesis 21:15; 2 Chronicles 24:10. unto the potter. The Syriac reads "into the treasury".
potter. fashioner. The material cast to, so as to be used by, the fashioner determines the meaning of the word (Hebrew. yazar). If clay, then. potter (Jeremiah 18:4; Jeremiah 19:1). If stone, then. jeweller, or mason (Ex. Zec 28:11, 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Chronicles 22:15). If wood, then. carpenter (1 Samuel 5:11. 2Ki 12:11. 1 Chronicles 14:1.Isaiah 44:13; Isaiah 44:13). If iron, then. smith (2 Chronicles 24:12.Isaiah 44:12; Isaiah 44:12). If gold, then. goldsmith (Hosea 8:6). If silver, then. silversmith (Hosea 13:2). The casting of silver to. potter was as incongruous as casting clay to. silversmith. See App-161.
goodly. ample. Used of. wide garment. There is no evidence of irony here or elsewhere in Zechariah. The Hebrew 'eder denotes size and amplitude, as in Jonah 3:6 and Micah 2:8.
prised. priced.
of them: i.e. by them. But some codices read "by you
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Zechariah 11:15 open_in_new
instruments. implements.
foolish. worthless. Judah and Israel had rejected these, and later on they rejected Messiah the good Shepherd; hence the threatening in Zechariah 11:16-17.
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Zechariah 11:16 open_in_new
lo. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6, This Looks forward to the Antichrist; for one of his titles is "the idol shepherd "of Zechariah 11:17.
those that be cut off. the perishing.
the young one. the straying.
that that is broken. the wounded.
feed. nourish.
that standeth still. the weak.
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Zechariah 11:17 open_in_new
idol. idol's. For the sequel to this prophecy see Zechariah 13:7-9.
clean dried up. withered.
darkened. blinded.