Zechariah 11:6

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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 ¹¹It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.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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I will no: Zechariah 11:5, Isaiah 27:11, Ezekiel 8:18, Ezekiel 9:10, Hosea 1:6, Matthew 18:33-35, Matthew 22:7, Matthew 23:35-38, Luke 19:43, Luke 19:44, Luke 21:22-24, 1 Thessalonians 2:16, Hebrews 10:26-31, James 2:13

deliver: Heb. make to be found, Zechariah 11:9, Zechariah 11:14, Zechariah 8:10, Isaiah 3:5, Isaiah 9:19-21, Jeremiah 13:14, Micah 7:2-7, Haggai 2:22, Matthew 10:21, Matthew 10:34-36, Matthew 24:10, Luke 12:52, Luke 12:53, Luke 21:16, Luke 21:17

into the: Daniel 9:26, Daniel 9:27, Matthew 22:7, John 19:15

they shall: Malachi 4:6

and out: Psalms 50:22, Hosea 2:10, Micah 5:8, Micah 6:14, Hebrews 2:3, Hebrews 10:26, Hebrews 10:27

Reciprocal: Lamentations 2:2 - swallowed Lamentations 2:21 - thou hast killed Lamentations 5:8 - there Ezekiel 5:11 - neither shall Ezekiel 7:4 - mine Zechariah 11:11 - knew Zechariah 13:8 - two Matthew 23:38 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:22
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

Genesis 6:5
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Genesis 8:21
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

Genesis 11:1
Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

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."

Judges 10:14
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you in your time of distress."

1 Kings 18:27
At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, "Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!"

Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

Luke 1:51
He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord,.... Or spare them; but cause his wrath to come upon them to the uttermost, as it did at the time of Jerusalem's destruction by the Romans;

but, lo, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbour's hand; this seems to refer to the factions and divisions among themselves during the siege of Jerusalem, when multitudes fell into the hands of the zealots, and heads of parties, and perished by them:

and into the hand of his king; Vespasian the Roman emperor; the Jews having declared, long before this time, that they had no king but Caesar, John 19:15 and now into his hands they were delivered up:

and they shall smite the land; that is, the Romans shall lay waste the land of Judea:

and out of their hand I will not deliver [them]; as formerly out of the hands of their neighbours, the Philistines, Ammonites, c. and out of the captivity of Babylon. It denotes that their destruction would be an utter one nor have they been delivered yet, though it has been over 1900 years ago.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I will no more pity - Therefore were they a “flock of the slaughter,” because God would “have no pity” on those who went after shepherds “who had no Pity” upon them, but corrupted them; who “entered not in themselves, and those who were entering in, they hindered” Luke 11:52.

The inhabitants of the land - “That land, of which he had been speaking,” Judaea. “And lo.” God, by this word, “lo,” always commands heed to His great doings with man; I, I, Myself, visibly interposing, “will deliver man,” the whole race of inhabitants, “every one into his neighbor’s hand,” by confusion and strife and hatred within, “and into the hand of his king,” him whom they chose and took as their own king, when they rejected Christ as their King, repudiating the title which Pilate gave Him, to move their pity. Whereas He, their Lord and God, was their King, they formally “denied Him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go; they denied the Holy One and the Just” Acts 3:13-14, and said, “We have no king but Caesar” John 19:15.

And they - The king without and the wild savages within, “shall smite,” bruise, crush in pieces, like a broken vessel, “the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver” them. Their captivity shall be without remedy or end. Holy Scripture often says, “there is no deliverer Judges 18:28; 2 Samuel 14:6; Job 5:4; Psalms 7:3; Psalms 50:22; Psalms 71:11; Isaiah 5:29; Isaiah 42:22; Hosea 5:14, Micah 5:7-8, or “none can deliver out of My hand” Deuteronomy 32:39; Job 10:7; Psalms 50:22; Psalms 71:11; Isaiah 43:13; Daniel 8:4, Daniel 8:7, or, since God delighteth in doing good, I Exo 6:6; 2 Kings 20:6; Jeremiah 15:21; Jeremiah 39:17; Ezekiel 34:27, He 1 Samuel 7:3; Psalms 18:15; Psalms 72:12; 2 Kings 17:39; Isaiah 19:20; Isaiah 31:5; Job 5:19, will deliver, or delivered Exodus 18:10; Joshua 24:10; Judges 6:9; 1 Samuel 10:18; 1Sa 14:10; 2 Samuel 22:1; Psalms 34:5, Psalms 34:18; 54:9; Ezra 8:31; Jeremiah 20:13 from the hands of the enemy, or their slavery, or their own fears, or afflictions, or the like. God nowhere else says absolutely as here, “I will not deliver” . “Hear, O Jew,” says Jerome, “who holdest out to thyself hopes most vain, and hearest not the Lord strongly asserting, “I will not deliver them out of their hands,” that thy captivity among the Romans shall have no end.” In the threatened captivity before they were carried to Babylon, the prophet foretold the restoration: here only it is said of Judah, as Hosea had said of lsrael, that there should be no deliverer out of the hand of the king whom they had chosen.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 11:6. For I will no more pity — I have determined to deliver them into the hands of the Chaldeans.