Three, put for many, a definite for an indefinite number. Shepherds, negligent or greatly faulty. I cut off; put out of office, or, by discovering their faults, made them lie hid and conceal themselves. In one month; in a little time. My soul loathed them; hated their treachery and idleness. Their soul also abhorred me: disgraced and turned out, they hated him; in which these shepherds had too many of the Jews that sided with them, and that bore a hatred to the true Shepherd and to his impartial executing severity on the wicked shepherds.
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Zechariah 11:8
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothedc them, and their soul also abhorred me.