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Zechariah 11

Zech. 11:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whose possessors
qanah (Hebrew #7069)
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
KJV usage: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, X surely, X verily.
Pronounce: kaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
slay
harag (Hebrew #2026)
to smite with deadly intent
KJV usage: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), X surely.
Pronounce: haw-rag'
Origin: a primitive root
them, and hold themselves not guilty
'asham (Hebrew #816)
a primitive root; to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish
KJV usage: X certainly, be(-come, made) desolate, destroy, X greatly, be(-come, found, hold) guilty, offend (acknowledge offence), trespass.
Pronounce: aw-sham'
Origin: or mashem {aw-shame'}
: and they that sell
makar (Hebrew #4376)
to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
KJV usage: X at all, sell (away, -er, self).
Pronounce: maw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
them say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Blessed
barak (Hebrew #1288)
to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason)
KJV usage: X abundantly, X altogether, X at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, X greatly, X indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, X still, thank.
Pronounce: baw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
f be the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
; for I am rich
`ashar (Hebrew #6238)
properly, to accumulate; chiefly (specifically) to grow (causatively, make) rich
KJV usage: be(-come, en-, make, make self, wax) rich, make (1 Kings 22:48 marg). See 6240.
Pronounce: aw-shar'
Origin: a primitive root
: and their own shepherds
ra`ah (Hebrew #7462)
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
KJV usage: X break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep)(-er), pastor, + shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
pity
chamal (Hebrew #2550)
to commiserate; by implication, to spare
KJV usage: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
Pronounce: khaw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
them not.
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Deut. 29:19‑21• 19and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.
 20Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;
 21and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. (Deut. 29:19‑21)

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Jer. 23:1‑2• 1Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.
 2Therefore thus saith Jehovah God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people, Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 23:1‑2)
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Ezek. 22:25‑27• 25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
 26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
 27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. (Ezek. 22:25‑27)
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Ezek. 34:2‑3,10• 2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say unto them. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
 3Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
 10Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. (Ezek. 34:2‑3,10)
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Mic. 3:1‑3,9‑12• 1And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
 2Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
 3and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
 9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
 10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
 11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
 12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. (Mic. 3:1‑3,9‑12)
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Matt. 23:14• 14(Verse not included in this translation). (Matt. 23:14)
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John 16:2• 2They will put you out of the synagogue; nay, an hour is coming that everyone who hath killed you will think that he is offering service to God. (John 16:2)
hold.
Jer. 2:3• 3Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him are guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 2:3)
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Jer. 50:7• 7All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of justice, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers. (Jer. 50:7)
sell.
Gen. 37:26‑28• 26And Judah said to his brethren, What profit [is it] if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
 27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened.
 28And there passed by Midianitish men, merchants; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver [pieces]; and they brought Joseph into Egypt. (Gen. 37:26‑28)
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2 Kings 4:1• 1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons as bondmen. (2 Kings 4:1)
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Neh. 5:8• 8And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye, even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. (Neh. 5:8)
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Matt. 21:12‑13• 12And Jesus entered into the temple [of God], and cast out all that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those that sold the doves.
 13And he says to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of robbers. (Matt. 21:12‑13)
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2 Peter 2:3• 3And in covetousness with feigned words, they shall make merchandise of you: for whom judgment from of old is not idle, and their perdition slumbereth not. (2 Peter 2:3)
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Rev. 18:13• 13and cinnamon and amomum and incense and unguent and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and of horses and of chariots and of bodies and souls of men. (Rev. 18:13)
Blessed.
Deut. 29:19‑21• 19and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.
 20Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;
 21and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. (Deut. 29:19‑21)
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Hos. 12:8• 8And Ephraim said, I am simply become rich; I have found me out substances: it is all my labours. They will find no iniquity in me that is sin. (Hos. 12:8)
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1 Tim. 6:5‑10• 5wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that piety is gain.
 6But piety with contentment is great gain.
 7For we brought nothing into the world; because neither can we carry anything out.
 8But having food and covering we shall be therewith satisfied.
 9But those that wish to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, such as sink men into destruction and perdition.
 10For a root of all evils is the love of money, which some eagerly seeking were led astray from the faith and pierced themselves through with many pains. (1 Tim. 6:5‑10)
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Ezek. 34:4,6,18‑19,21• 4The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
 6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
 18Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
 19And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
 21Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; (Ezek. 34:4,6,18‑19,21)
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John 10:1,12‑13• 1Verily, verily, I say to you, He that entereth not through the door into the fold of the sheep but climbeth up otherwise, he is a thief and a robber;
 12[But] he that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholdeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf snatcheth them, and scattereth;
 13and the hireling fleeth because he is a hireling, and no care hath he for the sheep. (John 10:1,12‑13)
• There are therefore three classes in this scene; first, the Gentile possessors, who seem to have the dominion over God’s people (as they will indeed in the last days); then the leaders of the nation who will be in league and friendly alliance with their Gentile masters, and “the flock of the slaughter” — the true remnant of God’s people, who cleave to Him and to their national hopes. (“Zechariah 11” by E. Dennett)
• Receiving the wages of their iniquity, like the brethren of Joseph when they sold him to the Ishmaelites, they say, “Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich.” Their hearts were hardened, and thus it was that, while the true Israelites were killed all the day long, and were accounted as sheep for the slaughter (Ps. 44:22) their own shepherds, those who filled that place, pitied them not. (“Zechariah 11” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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whose possessors slay them without being held guiltyf; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah! for I am become rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "and do not suffer [punishment] for it."

W. Kelly Translation

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whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.