Zechariah 11:11

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁴This is what the LORD my God says: "Pasture the flock marked for slaughter, ⁵whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, 'Praise the LORD, for I am rich!' Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them. ⁶For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land," declares the LORD, "but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hand of his neighbor and of his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands." ⁷So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock. ⁸And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me. ⁹Then I said, "I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; let the rest devour one another's flesh." ¹⁰Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations. ¹¹It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.¹²Then I told them, "If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. ¹³And the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter"-this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

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so: etc. or, the poor of the flock, etc. certainly knew, poor. Zechariah 11:7, Psalms 69:33, Psalms 72:12-14, Isaiah 14:32, Zephaniah 3:12, Luke 7:22, Luke 19:48, James 2:5, James 2:6

that waited: Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 26:8, Isaiah 26:9, Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Micah 7:7, Luke 2:25, Luke 2:38, Luke 23:51, Acts 1:21, Acts 1:22

knew: Zechariah 11:6, Leviticus 26:38-46, Deuteronomy 28:49-68, Deuteronomy 31:21, Deuteronomy 31:29, Deuteronomy 32:21-42, Luke 24:49-53, Romans 11:7-12, James 5:1-6

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:19 - brake them Psalms 72:4 - He shall judge Jeremiah 14:21 - remember Jeremiah 32:8 - Then I Zechariah 12:7 - save Zechariah 13:7 - I will turn Mark 1:37 - All Luke 4:18 - to preach Luke 6:20 - Blessed Luke 12:51 - General Luke 14:21 - Go Romans 15:26 - the poor

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."

Genesis 9:7
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it."

Genesis 11:3
And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Genesis 11:4
"Come," they said, "let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth."

Genesis 11:32
Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

Psalms 144:12
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it was broken in that day,.... In right, the day Christ died; apparently, when the Gospel, the substance of it, was removed; and, in fact, at the time of Jerusalem's destruction:

and so the poor of the flock; :-:

that waited upon me; as servants on their masters; as clients on their patron; as beggars at the door for alms; as attendants on the worship of God, for the manifestations of himself, for the performance of promises, and for answers of prayer: or "observed me" h; what he said and did, his word, and his ordinances; what he abolished, and what he instituted:

knew that it [was] the word of the Lord; either that Christ the Shepherd was the essential Word of the Lord; or that the prophecies concerning the destruction of the Jews, their civil and ecclesiastical state, were the word and decree of God now fulfilled; or that the Gospel taken from them is the word of the Lord, which he is the author of; his grace is the matter and substance of; and which he speaks by his ministers; and may be known by the matter and efficacy of it; by the refreshment and comfort it gives; by its leading souls to Christ; and by the harmony, agreement, and uniformity of its doctrines.

h השמרים אתי "qui observabant me", Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And so the poor of the flock that waited upon Me knew - The rest were blinded; those who listened to God’s word, observed His prophet, waited on Him and observed His words, knew from the fulfillment of the beginning, that the whole was God’s word. Every darkening cloud around the devoted city was an earnest, that the storm, which should destroy it, was gathering upon it. So our Lord warned, “When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart” Luke 21:20-21. The “little flock which waited upon” the Good Shepherd, obeyed the warning, and, fleeing to Pella, escaped the horrible judgment which fell on those who remained. Osorius: “They remembered that it had been predicted many centuries before, and that the Lord, by whose Spirit the prophet spake, foretold that in that city “one stone should not be left upon another” Matthew 24:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 11:11. So the poor of the flock — The pious, who attended to my teaching, saw that this was the word - the design, of God.