Your King comes
Zechariah 11
17 verses≈ 4 minBSB
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Where we are
- 1:1–6Return to MeA call to turn, in Darius’s second year
- 1:7–6:8Eight night visionsHorses, horns, a lampstand, a scroll, a basket, chariots
- 6:9–15The Branch crownedA crown for Joshua, and the Branch who builds
- 7–8Fasts to feastsJustice and mercy, and joy in Zion
- 9–11Your King comesThe King on a donkey, and the Shepherd rejectedChapter 11
- 12–14On that dayThe pierced One, the fountain, the LORD King
The Doomed Flock
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Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen;
the majestic trees are ruined!
Wail, O oaks of Bashan,
for the dense forest has been cut down!
Zechariah
Listen to the wailing of the shepherds,
for their glory is in ruins.
Listen to the roaring of the young lions,
for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
God
This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter, whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.
For 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 hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”
Zechariah
So 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.
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”
Question
Quick question
Read 11:4 and 11:13 again before you answer.
In 11:4–9, whose care for the flock does the prophet act out?
Thirty Pieces of Silver
Zechariah
Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.”
Zechariah
So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me.
Zechariah
So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
The Shepherd rejected
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Reject the good Shepherd and you get the worthless one. The Gospels show Jesus, sold for thirty pieces of silver, as the Shepherd His people priced so low.
And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.
Woe to the worthless shepherd,
who deserts the flock!
May a sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
May his arm be completely withered
and his right eye utterly blinded!”
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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain
Pray
Pray
Good Shepherd, they weighed You out for thirty pieces of silver, and I have priced You cheaply too. Forgive me. Keep me in Your flock, and give Your people shepherds who seek the lost. Amen.
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So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
Zechariah 11:12
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