Zakharia 4:5
Konteks4:5 He replied, “Don’t you know what these are?” So I responded, “No, sir.”
Zakharia 11:5
Konteks11:5 Those who buy them 1 slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich.’ Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.
Zakharia 14:7
Konteks14:7 It will happen in one day (a day known to the Lord); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light. 2
Zakharia 14:17
Konteks14:17 But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem 3 to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain.
[11:5] 1 sn The expression those who buy them appears to be a reference to the foreign nations to whom Israel’s own kings “sold” their subjects. Far from being good shepherds, then, they were evil and profiteering. The whole section (vv. 4-14) refers to the past when the
[14:7] 2 sn In the evening there will be light. The normal pattern is that light breaks through in the morning (Gen 1:3) but in the day of the
[14:17] 3 sn The reference to any…who refuse to go up to Jerusalem makes clear the fact that the nations are by no means “converted” to the