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Destruction of Nations: Zechariah 11:1-3 Analysis

Explore the symbolic interpretation of Zechariah 11:1-3, focusing on the destruction of the Cedars of Lebanon and the wailing shepherds. Discover the significance and meaning behind these prophetic verses.

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Destruction of Nations: Zechariah 11:1-3 Analysis

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  1. OUTLINE ZECHARIAH CHAPTER ELEVEN DESTRUCTION OF NATIONS AROUND JERUSALEM

  2. READ: ZECHARIAH 11:1-3 1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars. 2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the mighty trees are ruined. Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the thick forest has come down. 3 There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins.

  3. THE LORD WILL PARDON MY INIQUITY READ: PSALMS 25:11 11 For Your name's sake, O LORD, Pardon my iniquity, for it is great. THE LORD IS MERCIFUL AND JUST READ: PSALMS 101:1 1 I will sing of mercy and justice. To You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

  4. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:1-3 1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars. 2 Wail, O cypress, For the cedar has fallen, Because the mighty trees are ruined. Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the thick forest has come down. 3 There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins. WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THE CEDARS OF LEBANON? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? WHY? WAS THIS LITERALLY OR FIGURATIVELY? WHY WERE THE SHEPHERDS WAILING? WHAT WAS THE SOUND OF ROARING LIONS?

  5. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:1-3 1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars. 2 Wail, O cypress, For the cedar has fallen, Because the mighty trees are ruined. Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the thick forest has come down. WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THE CEDARS OF LEBANON? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM? WHY? WAS THIS LITERALLY OR FIGURATIVELY?

  6. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:1-3 WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE CEDARS OF LEBANON? READ: ISAIAH 10:34 34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One. READ: ISAIAH 14:8 8 Indeed, the cypress trees rejoice over you and the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, Since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us. READ: ISAIAH 37:24 24 By your servants you have reproached the Lord, and said, By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the limits of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter its farthest height, to its fruitful forest.

  7. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:1-3 WAS THIS LITERALLY OR FIGURATIVELY? READ: JEREMIAH 22:6-7 6 Thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to Me, the head of Lebanon. Yet I surely will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited. 7 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons. They shall cut down your choice cedars and cast them into the fire. READ: EZEKIEL 17:3-4 3 Thus says the Lord GOD: A great eagle with large wings and long pinions, full of feathers of various colors, came to Lebanon and took from the cedar the highest branch. 4 He cropped off its topmost young twig and carried it to a land of trade. He set it in a city of merchants. READ: EZEKIEL 17:12 12 Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, Indeed the king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and took its king and princes and led them with him to Babylon.

  8. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:1-3 WAS THIS LITERALLY OR FIGURATIVELY? READ: EZEKIEL 17:12 12 Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, Indeed the king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and took its king and princes and led them with him to Babylon. READ: EZEKIEL 31:3 3 Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, With fine branches that shaded the forest, of high stature and its top was among the thick boughs. READ: ISAIAH 2:12-13 12 The day of the LORD of hostsShall come upon everything proud and lofty, Upon everything lifted up: It shall be brought low 13 Upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up And upon all the oaks of Bashan.

  9. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:1-3 3 There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins. WHY WERE THE SHEPHERDS WAILING? READ: JEREMIAH 25:34-36 34 Wail, shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, You leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled. You shall fall like a precious vessel. 35 The shepherds will have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape. 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds And a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be heard. For the LORD has plundered their pasture,

  10. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:1-3 3 There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins. WHAT WAS THE SOUND OF ROARING LIONS? WHY? READ: ISAIAH 5:29 29 Their roaring will be like a lion. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they will roar And lay hold of the prey. They will carry it away safely And no one will deliver. READ: JEREMIAH 2:15 15 The young lions roared at him, and growled. They made his land waste. His cities are burned, without inhabitant.

  11. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:1-3 3 There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins. WHAT WAS THE SOUND OF ROARING LIONS? WHY? READ: JEREMIAH 49:19 50:44 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lionfrom the floodplain of the JordanAgainst the dwelling place of the strong. But I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And Who is that shepherdWho will withstand Me?" READ: 2 KINGS 17:25 25 And it was so, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they did not fear the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

  12. READ: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 4 Thus says the LORD my God, Feed the flock for slaughter, 5 Whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt. Those who sell them say, Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich. And their shepherds do not pity them. 6 I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD. But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land and I will not deliver them from their hand.

  13. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 4 Thus says the LORD my God, Feed the flock for slaughter, 5 Whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt. Those who sell them say, Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich. And Their shepherds do not pity them. 6 I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD. But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land And I will not deliver them from their hand. WHO ARE THE SHEPHERDS? WHAT WERE THEY DOING? WHY FEED THE FLOCK FOR SLAUGHTER? WHY WILL THE LORD HAVE NO PITY ON THEM? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHO WILL ATTACK THEM? WHO WILL DELIVER THEM?

  14. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 4 Thus says the LORD my God, Feed the flock for slaughter, 5 Whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt. Those who sell them say, Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich. And Their shepherds do not pity them. WHAT WERE THE SHEPHERDS DOING? READ: PSALMS 44:22 22 Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. READ: PSALMS 49:14 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave. Death shall feed on them. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty shall be consumed in the grave, far from their dwelling.

  15. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 WHAT WERE THE SHEPHERDS DOING? READ: JEREMIAH 50:6-7 6 My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place. 7 All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, We have not offended, Because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, The LORD, the hope of their fathers. READ: EZEKIEL 34:2-3 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 3 You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool. You slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock.

  16. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 6 I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD. But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land And I will not deliver them from their hand. WHY WILL THE LORD HAVE NO PITY ON THEM? WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? WHO WILL ATTACK THEM? WHO WILL DELIVER THEM?

  17. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 WHY WILL THE LORD HAVE NO PITY ON THEM? READ: JUDGES 10:13-14 13 You have forsaken Me and served other gods. Therefore I will deliver you no more. 14 Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen. Let them deliver you in your time of distress. READ: PSALMS 50:22 22 Consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, And there be none to deliver. READ: PSALMS 71:11 11 God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him. For there is none to deliver him.

  18. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 6 I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD. But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land And I will not deliver them from their hand. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? READ: DEUTERONOMY 32:39 9 I, even I, am He, and there is no God besides Me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand. READ: HOSEA 5:14 4 I will be like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them and go away. I will take them away and no one shall rescue.

  19. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 6 I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD. But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land And I will not deliver them from their hand. WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THEM? READ: JEREMIAH 13:14 14 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says the LORD. I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy, but will destroy them. READ: LAMENTATIONS 2:21 21 Young and old lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered and not pitied.

  20. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 6 I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD. But Indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the landand I will not deliver them from their hand. WHO WILL ATTACK THEM? MEDO-PERSIAN KINGS? READ: DANIEL 8:4 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, northward and southward, so that no animal could withstand him. Nor was there any that could deliver from his hand, but he did according to his will and became great. READ: DANIEL 8:7 7 I saw him confronting the ram. He was moved with rage against him, attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to withstand him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him. And there was no one that could deliver the ram from his hand.

  21. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 6 I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD. But Indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the landand I will not deliver them from their hand. WHO WILL DELIVER THEM? READ: ISAIAH 9:19-21 19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hoststhe land is burned up and the people shall be as fuel for the fire. No man shall spare his brother. 20 He shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry. He shall devour on the left hand and not be satisfied. Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm. 21 Manasseh shall devour Ephraim and Ephraim Manasseh. Together they shall be against Judah. For all this His anger is not turned away But His hand is stretched out still.

  22. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:4-6 6 I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD. But Indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the landand I will not deliver them from their hand. WHO WILL DELIVER THEM? READ: MICAH 5:7-8 7 The remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, Like dew from the LORD, Like showers on the grass, That tarry for no man Nor wait for the sons of men. 8 The remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the midst of many peoples,Like a lion among the beasts of the forest, Like a young lion among flocks of sheep, Who, if he passes through, Both treads down and tears in pieces, And none can deliver.

  23. READ: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 7 I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, the other I called Bonds; And I fed the flock. 8 I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them and their soul also abhorred me. 9 Then I said, I will not feed you. Let what is dying, die and what is perishing, perish. Let those that are left eat each other's flesh.

  24. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 7 I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, the other I called Bonds; And I fed the flock. 8 I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them and their soul also abhorred me. 9 Then I said, I will not feed you. Let what is dying, die and what is perishing, perish. Let those that are left eat each other's flesh. WHO WERE THE POOR OF THE FLOCK? WHY TAKE TWO STAFFS? WHAT WERE THEY CALLED? WHAT DID THEY REPRESENT? WHO WERE THE SHEPHERDS? PRIESTS? SCRIBES? PHARISEES? RULERS? PROPHETS? WHY WERE THEY DISMISSED? WHY DID THE LORD QUIT FEEDING THE SHEEP? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?

  25. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 7 I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, the other I called Bonds; And I fed the flock. WHO WERE THE POOR OF THE FLOCK? REMNANT? READ: EZEKIEL 14:5 5 I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols. READ: ZEPHANIAH 3:12 12 I will leave in your midstA meek and humble people, And they shall trust in the name of the LORD. READ: ROMANS 11:5 5 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnantaccording to the election of grace.

  26. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 7 I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, the other I called Bonds; And I fed the flock. WHY TAKE TWO STAFFS? WHAT WERE THEY CALLED? BEAUTY - BONDS WHAT DID THEY REPRESENT? READ: PSALMS 23:4 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

  27. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 7 I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, the other I called Bonds. And I fed the flock. WHAT WERE THEY CALLED? WHY BEAUTY? READ: PSALMS 29:2 2 Give to the LORD the glory due to His name. Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. READ: PSALMS 27:4 4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple. READ: PSALMS 90:17 17 Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.

  28. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 7 I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, the other I called Bonds. And I fed the flock. WHAT WERE THEY CALLED? WHY BONDS? WHAT DID THEY REPRESENT? (BANDS - CORDS) READ: PSALMS 119:61 61 The cords of the wicked have bound me, But I have not forgotten Your law. WHAT BOUND THESE PEOPLE TOGETHER? READ: NEHEMIAH 10:30 29 These joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oathto walk in God's Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and doall the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:

  29. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 8 I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them and their soul also abhorred me. WHO WERE THE SHEPHERDS? PRIESTS? SCRIBES? PHARISEES? RULERS? PROPHETS? WHY WERE THEY DISMISSED?

  30. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 WHO WERE THE SHEPHERDS? PRIESTS? SCRIBES? PHARISEES? RULERS? PROPHETS? WHY WERE THEY DISMISSED? READ: EZEKIEL 14:5 5 That I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols. READ: JEREMIAH 2:8 8 The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? And those who handle the lawdid not know Me. The rulerstransgressed againstMe. The prophetsprophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit. READ: JEREMIAH 2:26 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, So is the house of Israel ashamed. They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their prophets.

  31. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 WHO WERE THE SHEPHERDS? PRIESTS? SCRIBES? PHARISEES? RULERS? PROPHETS? WHY THE PRIESTS? READ: MALACHI 2:7 7 The lips of a priest should keep knowledge And the people should seek the law from his mouth. For He is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. WHY WERE THEY DISMISSED? READ: JEREMIAH 18:18 18 They said, Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. The law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue and let us not give heed to any of his words.

  32. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 WHO WERE THE SHEPHERDS? PRIESTS? SCRIBES? PHARISEES? RULERS? PROPHETS? WHY THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES? READ: LUKE 11:44-46 44 Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like graves which are not seen and the men who walk over them are not aware of them. 45 Then one of the lawyers answered and said to Him, Teacher, by saying these thingsYou reproach us also. 46 And He said, Woe to you also, lawyers! For you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

  33. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 WHO WERE THE SHEPHERDS? PRIESTS? SCRIBES? PHARISEES? RULERS? PROPHETS? WHY THE RULERS? READ: ACTS 3:14-15 14 You denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

  34. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 9 Then I said, I will not feed you. Let what is dying, die and what is perishing, perish. Let those that are left eat each other's flesh. WHY DID THE LORD QUIT FEEDING THE SHEEP? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM? READ: JEREMIAH 15:1-3 1 The LORD said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight and let them go forth. 2 It shall be, if they say to you, Where should we go? You shall tell them, Thus says the LORD: Such as are for death, to death; And such as are for the sword, to the sword; And such as are for the famine, to the famine; And such as are for the captivity, to the captivity. 3 I will appoint over them four forms of destruction, says the LORD: the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earthto devour and destroy

  35. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:7-9 9 Then I said, I will not feed you. Let what is dying, die and what is perishing, perish. Let those that are left eat each other's flesh. WHY DID THE LORD QUIT FEEDING THE SHEEP? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM? READ: JEREMIAH 43:11 11 When he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt and deliver to death those appointed for death and to captivity those appointed for captivity and to the sword those appointed for the sword. READ: EZEKIEL 6:12 12 He who is far offshall die by the pestilence. He who is nearshall fall by the sword. And he who remains and is besiegedshall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.

  36. READ: ZECHARIAH 11:10-11 10 I took my staff, Beauty and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. 11 So it was broken on that day. Thus the poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.

  37. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-11 10 I took my staff, Beauty and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. 11 So it was broken on that day. Thus the poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD. WHAT DID THE LORD DO WITH HIS STAFF? WHAT DID THIS MEAN? WHO BROKE THE COVENANT? WHAT DID THE POOR OF THE FLOCK KNOW?

  38. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 10 I took my staff, Beauty and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. WHAT DID THE LORD DO WITH HIS STAFF, BEAUTY? WHAT DID THIS MEAN? WHO BROKE THE COVENANT? READ: ISAIAH 24:5 5 The earth is defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant. READ: JEREMIAH 11:10 10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefatherswho refused to hear My words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.

  39. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 10 I took my staff, Beauty and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. WHAT DID THE LORD DO WITH HIS STAFF, BEAUTY? WHAT DID THIS MEAN? WHO BROKE THE COVENANT? READ: EZEKIEL 16:59 59 Thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, who despised the oath by breaking the covenant. READ: EZEKIEL 44:7 7 When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it, My house. And when you offered My food, the fat and the blood, Then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations.

  40. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 10 I took my staff, Beauty and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. WHO BROKE THE COVENANT? READ: LEVITICUS 26:44 44 Yet for all that, When they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, Nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them Or break My covenant with them For I am the LORD their God. READ: JUDGES 2:1 1 The Angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim and said: I led you up from Egypt And brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers. And I said, I will never break My covenant with you. READ: JEREMIAH 14:21 21 Do not abhor us, for Your name's sake. Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory. Remember, do not break Your covenant with us.

  41. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 10 I took my staff, Beauty and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. WILL THERE BE ANOTHER COVENANT? WHY? READ: HOSEA 2:18 18 In that dayI will make a covenant for themWith the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, And with the creeping things of the ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth, to make them lie down safely. READ: EZEKIEL 34:25 25 I will make a covenant of peace with them and cause wild beasts to cease from the land. They will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

  42. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 11 So it was broken on that day. Thus the poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD. WHAT DID THE POOR OF THE FLOCK KNOW?

  43. READ: ZECHARIAH 11:12-13 12 Then I said to them, If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain. So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13 The LORD said to me, Throw it to the potter: that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD for the potter.

  44. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:12-14 12 Then I said to them, If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain. So they weighed out for my wagesthirty pieces of silver. 13 The LORD said to me, Throw it to the potter: that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD for the potter. WHAT DID THE LORD ASK THEM? WHAT DID THEY GIVE HIM? WHY THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER? WHAT DID THE LORD TELL HIM? WHAT WAS THE POTTER?

  45. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 12 Then I said to them, If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain. So they weighed out for my wagesthirty pieces of silver. WHAT DID THE LORD ASK THEM? READ: GENESIS 31:41-42 41 I have been in your house twenty years. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night. READ: ISAIAH 49:4 4 I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain; Yet surely my just reward is with the LORD, And my work with my God.

  46. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 12 Then I said to them, If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain. So they weighed out for my wagesthirty pieces of silver. WHAT DID THEY GIVE HIM? WHY THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER? READ: MATTHEW 26:14-16 14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 And said, What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you? And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. 16 So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.

  47. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 13 The LORD said to me, Throw it to the potter: that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD for the potter. WHAT DID THE LORD TELL HIM? WHAT WAS THE PRICE THEY SET ON HIM? WHAT WAS THE POTTER? READ: MATTHEW 27:5-8 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed. And he went and hanged himself. 6 The chief priests took the silver pieces and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood. 7 They consulted together and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. 8 That field has been calledthe Field of Blood to this day.

  48. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 13 The LORD said to me, Throw it to the potter: that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD for the potter. WHAT DID THE LORD TELL HIM? WHAT WAS THE PRICE THEY SET ON HIM? WHAT WAS THE POTTER? POTTER’S FIELD? READ: MATTHEW 27:9-10 9 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, They took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced, 10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the LORD directed me. WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY? WHERE WAS THIS POTTER’S FIELD?

  49. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY? WHO IS THE POTTER? WHO IS THE CLAY? READ: JEREMIAH 18:1-6 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying: 2 Arise and go down to the potter's house. There I will cause you to hear My words. 3 I went down to the potter's house. There he was, making something at the wheel. 4 The vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter. So he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make. 5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: 6 O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Look, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!

  50. QUESTIONS: ZECHARIAH 11:10-12 WHAT DID JEREMIAH SAY? WHERE WAS THIS POTTER’S FIELD? READ: JEREMIAH 19:1-3 1 Thus says the LORD: Go and get a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests. 2 Go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there the words that I will tell you, 3 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will tingle.

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