the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Zechariah 11:8
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I fired the three shepherds all in one month. I got angry at the sheep, and they began to hate me.
Then I did away with the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was tired of me.
In one month I got rid of three shepherds. The flock did not pay attention to me, and I got impatient with them.
And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
Then I eliminated the three [incompetent, unfit] shepherds [the civil rulers, the priests, and the prophets] in one month, for I was impatient with them, and they also were tired of me and despised me.
In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
And Y kittide doun thre scheepherdis in o monethe, and my soule is drawun togidere in hem; for also the soule of hem variede in me.
And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
In less than a month, I became impatient with three shepherds who didn't like me, and I got rid of them.
And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.
"In a single month I got rid of three shepherds, because I grew impatient with them; and besides, they detested me.
And I destroyed three shepherds in one month; and my soul was vexed with them, and their soul also loathed me.
And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; 'for My soul became impatient of them, and their soul also loathed Me.'
Three shepheards also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule loathed them, and their soule also abhorred mee.
I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month. But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.
I destroyed the three shepherds in one month. I was angry with them, and they hated me.
In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.
Three shepherdes also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule lothed them, and their soule abhorred me.
Three shepherds I did away with in one month; and my soul was wearied of them, and their soul also howled against me.
And I sent off three shepherds, in one month, - for impatient was my soul with them, moreover also, their soul, felt a loathing against me.
And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.
In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
Three shepheardes I put out of office in one moneth, for I might not away with them: neither had they any delight in me.
And I will cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul shall grieve over them, for their souls cried out against me.
I lost patience with three other shepherds, who hated me, and I got rid of them all in a single month.
In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
And I got rid of three shepherds in one month, for I grew impatient with them, and they also became tired of me.
I also cut off three shepherds in one month. And My soul loathed them, and their soul also detested Me.
And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me.
Thre shepherdes destroyed I in one moneth, for I might not awaye wt them, nether had they eny delyte in me.
Next I eradicated the three shepherds in one month, for I ran out of patience with them and, indeed, they detested me as well.
I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me.
Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
in: Hosea 5:7, Matthew 23:34-36, Matthew 24:50, Matthew 24:51
and my: Leviticus 26:11, Leviticus 26:30, Leviticus 26:44, Deuteronomy 32:19, Psalms 5:5, Psalms 78:9, Psalms 106:40, Jeremiah 12:8, Jeremiah 14:21, Hosea 9:15, Hebrews 10:38
loathed them: Heb. was straitened for them, Isaiah 49:7, Luke 12:50, Luke 19:14, John 7:7, John 15:18, John 15:23-25
Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:23 - therefore Leviticus 26:43 - their soul 1 Samuel 13:4 - was had in abomination 1 Kings 11:25 - abhorred 1 Kings 22:8 - but I hate him Job 30:10 - abhor me Psalms 11:5 - wicked Psalms 78:59 - greatly Psalms 88:8 - made Psalms 89:38 - and Proverbs 13:5 - is Proverbs 29:27 - General Isaiah 1:14 - I am weary Isaiah 53:3 - despised Jeremiah 6:8 - lest Jeremiah 7:29 - for Jeremiah 14:19 - hath Jeremiah 22:22 - thy pastors Ezekiel 14:5 - estranged Ezekiel 16:45 - that loatheth Ezekiel 23:18 - then Hosea 4:5 - and the prophet Hosea 4:6 - I will also reject Amos 6:8 - I abhor Zephaniah 2:1 - O nation Zechariah 11:3 - a voice Matthew 21:41 - He will Matthew 24:21 - General Matthew 27:22 - What Matthew 27:41 - General Mark 8:13 - General Luke 12:51 - General Luke 23:2 - they Luke 23:23 - General Luke 24:44 - in the prophets John 10:2 - the shepherd John 17:14 - the world Acts 4:27 - the people Revelation 3:16 - I will spue thee out
Cross-References
And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month,.... Not Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, as is suggested in the Talmud e; nor David, Adonijah, and Joab, who died in the space of a month; nor the three kings, Jehoash, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah, who died by the hand of their enemies in a very little time; which is the sense of some, as Abendana observes; nor the three last prophets, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, according to Aben Ezra; nor the three Maccabees, Judas, Jonathan, and Simon, as Abarbinel; rather the three sects among the Jews, the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes, instead of which last some put the Herodians; and others the Scribes; though some are of opinion that the three sanhedrim or courts of judicature among the Jews are designed; but it seems best of all to interpret them of the three orders of magistrates among them, princes, prophets, and priests; and the "cutting" them "off" may denote the cessation of civil government, the sealing up of vision and prophecy, and the putting an end to sacrifice; which is much better than to interpret them of the three Roman emperors who succeeded Nero; that is, Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, who were put to death by their own subjects, within the space of a year and some days f; and which is a term of time that can not well be thought to be expressed by a month; which either signifies in general a small space of time; or, if a certain month is meant, either it designs the month Nisan, in which Christ suffered, when of right sacrifice should have ceased, as well as then prophecy was sealed up, and there was no more of it among the Jews, nor any civil government in their hands: or else the month Ab, in which the city of Jerusalem was burnt; and so an end was put in fact to all the above offices there. It may be that a month of years is intended, as in Revelation 11:2 and so Abarbinel here interprets it; though he applies it to the times of the Maccabees; but it may respect the thirty years, or thereabout, which were between the death of Christ and the destruction of Jerusalem, within which compass of time the above events were actually and manifestly fulfilled:
and my soul loathed them; because they did not perform the duties of their office; the civil magistrate did not govern according to the laws of God; the prophets did not teach sound doctrine; and the priests did not do their service aright, nor teach the people the use and end of sacrifices, and in them direct to the Messiah, as they should have done: wherefore Christ expressed his dislike of them by words in his ministry, particularly in Matthew chapter twenty three, Matthew 23:1 and by deeds, causing vengeance to come upon them to the entire removal of them: or, "my soul was shortened", or "contracted in them", or "towards them" g; his affections were lessened towards them; he loathed their ways and works, which were not good; and he rejected and cast them off as his people, and wrote a "loammi" on them; took away his Gospel from them, and abolished their civil and church state:
and their soul also abhorred me; which is the reason of the former; and so the Targum paraphrases it,
"and my Word cast them away, because their soul abhorred my worship;''
all ranks and orders of men among the Jews had Christ in abhorrence; they abhorred his person, his name, his miracles, his doctrines, his ordinances, and his people; this they did because of his mean appearance; and because of his inveighing against their traditions, superstitions, and immoralities; and this appeared by their contemptuous rejection of him as the Messiah; by their crucifixion of him; and by persecuting his disciples and followers.
e T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 9. 1. f Calmet's Dictionary, in the word "Shepherds". g ותקצר נפשי בהם "et abbreviata est anima mea in eis", Montanus, Cocceius, Burkius; "coarctata est", Calvin; "contractabatur, [vel] contrahetsese", Vatablus; "contracta est", Drusius, Grotius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And I cut off three shepherds in one month - Jerome: “I have read in some one’s commentary, that the shepherds, cut off in the indignation of the Lord, are to be understood of priests and false prophets and kings of the Jews, who, after the passion of Christ, were all cut off in one time, of whom Jeremiah speaketh, “The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew Me not; the pastors also transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things which do not profit” Jeremiah 2:8, and again, “As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests and their prophets” Jeremiah 2:26; and “they said, Come, let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet” Jeremiah 18:18.
Theodoret: “He speaks of the kings of the Jews, and prophets and priests; for by the three orders they were shepherded.” Cyril: “The true and good Shepherd having been already pointed out, it was right and necessary that the hirelings and false shepherds should be removed, the guides of the Jews in the law. The three shepherds were, I deem, those who exercised the legal priesthood, and those appointed judges of the people, and the interpreters of Scripture, that is, the lawyers. For these too fed Israel. Those who had the glory of the priesthood were of the tribe of Levi only; and of them Malachi says, “The priest’s lips shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth” Malachi 2:7. But those who received authority to judge were also selected, yet were appointed out of every tribe. In like way the lawyers, who were ever assessors to the judges, and adduced the words of the law in proof of every matter.
But we shall find that our Lord Jesus Christ Himself expressly pronounced woe on the Pharisees and scribes and lawyers. For He said, “Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees” Luke 11:44. And when one of the lawyers hereupon answered Him saying, “Master, so saying Thou reproachest us also,” He said, “Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers” Luke 11:45-46. These “three Shepherds” then, priests and judges and lawyers o, who remained in their own orders and places, until the coming of Christ, were very justly taken away “in one month.” For since “they killed the Prince of life” Acts 3:15, thereby also are they mown down, and that in the month of the first fruits, in which Emmanuel endured to be slain for us. They remained indeed administering Israel, even after the Saviour’s Cross, through the long-suffering and compassion of Almighty God calling them to repentance; but, in the sentence passed by God, they were taken away, at that time, when they delivered to the Cross the Saviour and Redeemer of all. They were taken away then in one mouth;” Nisan. a.d. 33. The three offices, King, Divine Teacher, Priest, were to be united in Christ: they might have been held under Him: those who rejected them in Him, forfeited them themselves. These then He made to disappear, effaced them from the earth.
And My soul was straightened - For them o. It is used of the divine grief at the misery of His people. “And their soul abhorred Me, nauseated Me” o. Kimchi: “When it is said, “Their soul also abhorreth Me,” the meaning is, ‘My soul did not loathe them first, but their soul first despised Me, therefore My Soul abhorred them.’” The soul which drives away God’s good Spirit, comes at last to loathe Him and the thought and mention of Him.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 11:8. Three shepherds also I cut off in one month — Taking this literally, some think the three shepherds mean the three Maccabees, Judas, Jonathan, and Simon; others, the three wicked high priests, Jason, Alcimus, and Menelaus; others, the three last princes of the Asmonean race, Alexander, Hyrcanus, and Antigonus.
Perhaps three orders may be intended:
1. The priesthood.
2. The dictatorship, including the Scribes, Pharisees, &c.
3. The magistracy, the great sanhedrin, and the smaller councils.
These were all annihilated by the Roman conquest.
