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Zechariah 11:7 KJV
Zechariah · chapter 11 · verse 7
And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.Zechariah 11:7 · King James Version
Zechariah 11:7 in context
5Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
7And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
9Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- slaughterhărêgâhslaughterH2028 →
- stavesmaqqêla shootH4731 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- BeautynôʻamagreeablenessH5278 →
- flocktsôʼna collective name for a flockH6629 →
- Bandschâbalto wind tightlyH2254 →
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The prophet here is made a type of Christ, as the prophet Isaiah sometimes was; and the scope of these verses is to show that for judgment Christ came into this world (Joh 9:39), for judgment to the Jewish church and nation, which were, about the time of his coming, wretchedly corrupted and degenerated by the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-14