Zechariah 11:15-16

The Flock Doomed to Slaughter

15 Then the Lord said to me, "Take once more the equipment of c a foolish shepherd. 16 For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd d who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but e devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:18 - 20
    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 34:4
    The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
    John 10:13
    He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
  3. Cross References
    Ezekiel 34:3
    You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.
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