Idol] RV 'worthless.' The word is used of idols, because of their worthlessness: cp. John 10:12; John 10:13.

Zechariah 13:7. My fellow] one who has the same interests. Smite the shepherd] cp. 1 Kings 22:17, and the most fitting application of the words to our Lord (Matthew 26:31). The whole section (Zechariah 11; Zechariah 13:7) would most fittingly apply to the year 171 b.c., when Menelaus, with the aid of Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria, usurped the high priesthood in Jerusalem and Jason was expelled. Feuds and bloodshed followed, culminating in a terrible massacre, and the deportation of thousands of Jews by Antiochus. The third] i.e. a remnant.

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