Zechariah 11:1
OPEN, to. Figure of speech _Apostrophe._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
OPEN, to. Figure of speech _Apostrophe._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHEPHERDS. the rulers of the State. YOUNG LIONS. The rapacious nobles.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 o... [ Continue Reading ]
AM RICH. am become rich, [and therefore can sell them cheaply].... [ Continue Reading ]
SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle. MEN, Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. EVERY ONE. Hebrew. _'ish_, App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
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... [ Continue Reading ]
CUT OFF. sent off. They are unnamed. SOUL, Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT, &c.. the dying will die. EAT EVERY ONE, &c.: i.e. destroy one another.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE. peoples: i.e. here, tribes.... [ Continue Reading ]
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).... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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, t... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
IDOL. idol's. For the sequel to this prophecy see Zechariah 13:7. CLEAN DRIED UP. withered. DARKENED. blinded.... [ Continue Reading ]