Zechariah 11:4-14

The Flock Doomed to Slaughter

4 Thus said the Lord my God: o "Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. 5 p Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the Lord, q I have become rich,' and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6 For r I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand."

7 s So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named u Favor, the other I named v Union. s And I tended the sheep. 8 In one month w I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. 9 So I said, "I will not be your shepherd. x What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another." 10 And I took y my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. 11 So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12 Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages z thirty pieces of silver. 13 Then the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter" - a the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the z thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter. 14 Then I broke b my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

  1. Cross References
    Zechariah 11:7
    So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.
  2. 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.
  3. Cross References
    Hosea 12:8
    Ephraim has said, "Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 13:14
    And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.'
  5. Cross References
    Zechariah 11:4
    Thus said the Lord my God: "Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.
  6. Cross References
    Zechariah 11:4
    Thus said the Lord my God: "Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.
  7. Cross References
    Zechariah 11:10
    And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
  8. Cross References
    Zechariah 11:14
    Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
  9. Cross References
    Zechariah 11:3
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    Zechariah 10:3
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    Jeremiah 22:11
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    Jeremiah 22:24
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  10. Cross References
    Jeremiah 15:2
    And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord : "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.
  11. Cross References
    Zechariah 11:7
    So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 21:32
    If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
    Matthew 26:15
    And said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.
  13. Cross References
    Matthew 27:9 - 10
    Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel.
  14. Cross References
    Zechariah 11:12
    Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.
  15. Cross References
    Zechariah 11:7
    So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.
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