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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is myc fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smited the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

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Phil. 2:6• ⁶who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; (Phil. 2:6)

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Matt. 26:31• ³¹Then saith Jesus to them, All *ye* shall be offended in me during this night. For it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. (Matt. 26:31)

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O sword.

Deut. 32:41‑42• ⁴¹If I have sharpened my gleaming sword, And my hand take hold of judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
⁴²Mine arrows will I make drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; I will make them drunk with the blood of the slain and of the captives, With the head of the princes of the enemy. (Deut. 32:41‑42)

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Isa. 27:1• ¹In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)

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Jer. 47:6• ⁶Alas! sword of Jehovah, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Withdraw into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. (Jer. 47:6)

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Ezek. 21:4‑5,9‑10,28• ⁴Seeing that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south to the north;
⁵and all flesh shall know that I Jehovah have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more.
⁹Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished.
¹⁰It is sharpened for sore slaughter, it is furbished that it may glitter. Shall we then make mirth, saying, The sceptre of my son contemneth all wood?
²⁸And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus speaketh the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and thou shalt say, A sword, a sword is drawn; for the slaughter is it furbished, that it may consume, that it may glitter: (Ezek. 21:4‑5,9‑10,28)

my shepherd.

Zech. 11:4,7• ⁴Thus saith Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter,
⁷So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. (Zech. 11:4,7)

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Isa. 40:11• ¹¹He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom; he will gently lead those that give suck. (Isa. 40:11)

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Ezek. 34:23‑24• ²³And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David: he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
²⁴And I Jehovah will be their God, and my servant David a prince in their midst: I Jehovah have spoken it. (Ezek. 34:23‑24)

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Ezek. 37:24• ²⁴And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: and they shall walk in mine ordinances, and keep my statutes, and do them. (Ezek. 37:24)

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Mic. 5:2,4• ²(And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me who is to be Ruler in Israel: whose goings forth are from of old, from the days of eternity.)
⁴And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God. And they shall abide; for now shall he be great even unto the ends of the earth. (Mic. 5:2,4)

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John 10:10‑18• ¹⁰The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.
¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep:
¹²but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.
¹³Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.
¹⁴I am the good shepherd; and I know those that are mine, and am known of those that are mine,
¹⁵as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
¹⁶And I have other sheep which are not of this fold: those also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
¹⁷On this account the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again.
¹⁸No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment of my Father. (John 10:10‑18)

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Heb. 13:20• ²⁰But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant, (Heb. 13:20)

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1 Peter 5:4• ⁴And when the chief shepherd is manifested ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory. (1 Peter 5:4)

the man.

Isa. 9:6• ⁶For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name is called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty *God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. (Isa. 9:6)

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Jer. 23:5‑6• ⁵Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, who shall reign as king, and act wisely, and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
⁶In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell in safety; and this is his name whereby he shall be called, Jehovah our Righteousness. (Jer. 23:5‑6)

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Hos. 12:3‑5• ³He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his strength he wrestled with God.
⁴Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
⁵--even Jehovah, the God of hosts,--Jehovah is his memorial. (Hos. 12:3‑5)

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Matt. 1:23• ²³Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, 'God with us.' (Matt. 1:23)

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Matt. 11:27• ²⁷All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father, nor does any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son may be pleased to reveal him. (Matt. 11:27)

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John 1:1‑2• ¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
²*He* was in the beginning with God. (John 1:1‑2)

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John 5:17‑18• ¹⁷But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto and I work.
¹⁸For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God. (John 5:17‑18)

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John 5:23• ²³that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who honours not the Son, honours not the Father who has sent him. (John 5:23)

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John 8:58• ⁵⁸Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. (John 8:58)

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John 10:30,38• ³⁰I and the Father are one.
³⁸but if I do, even if ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in him. (John 10:30,38)

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John 14:1,9‑11,23• ¹Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe on God, believe also on me.
⁹Jesus says to him, Am I so long a time with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?
¹⁰Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak from myself; but the Father who abides in me, he does the works.
¹¹Believe *me* that I am in the Father and the Father in me; but if not, believe me for the works' sake themselves.
²³Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him. (John 14:1,9‑11,23)

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John 16:15• ¹⁵All things that the Father has are mine; on account of this I have said that he receives of mine and shall announce it to you. (John 16:15)

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John 17:21‑23• ²¹that they may be all one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
²²And the glory which thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one;
²³I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me. (John 17:21‑23)

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Phil. 2:6• ⁶who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; (Phil. 2:6)

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Col. 1:15‑19• ¹⁵who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;
¹⁶because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.
¹⁷And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him.
¹⁸And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things:
¹⁹for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell, (Col. 1:15‑19)

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Heb. 1:6‑12• ⁶and again, when he brings in the firstborn into the habitable world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him.
⁷And as to the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire;
⁸but as to the Son, Thy throne, O God, is to the age of the age, and a sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
⁹Thou hast loved righteousness and hast hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy companions.
¹⁰And, *Thou* in the beginning, Lord, hast founded the earth, and works of thy hands are the heavens.
¹¹They shall perish, but *thou* continuest still; and they all shall grow old as a garment,
¹²and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but *thou* art the Same, and thy years shall not fail. (Heb. 1:6‑12)

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Rev. 1:8,11,17• ⁸I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, he who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.
¹¹saying, What thou seest write in a book, and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.
¹⁷And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead; and he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; *I* am the first and the last, (Rev. 1:8,11,17)

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Rev. 2:23• ²³and her children will I kill with death; and all the assemblies shall know that *I* am he that searches the reins and the hearts; and I will give to you each according to your works. (Rev. 2:23)

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Rev. 21:6• ⁶And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsts of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Rev. 21:6)

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Rev. 22:13‑16• ¹³*I* am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
¹⁴Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they should go in by the gates into the city.
¹⁵Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie.
¹⁶*I* Jesus have sent mine angel to testify these things to you in the assemblies. *I* am the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning star. (Rev. 22:13‑16)

smite.

Isa. 53:4‑10• ⁴Surely *he* hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we, we did regard him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
⁵But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
⁶All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all.
⁷He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, but he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth.
⁸He was taken from oppression and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
⁹And men appointed his grave with the wicked, but he was with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence, neither was there guile in his mouth.
¹⁰Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath subjected him to suffering. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see a seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. (Isa. 53:4‑10)

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Dan. 9:24‑26• ²⁴Seventy weeks are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal the vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.
²⁵Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.
²⁶And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war,--the desolations determined. (Dan. 9:24‑26)

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John 1:29• ²⁹On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

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John 3:14‑17• ¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, thus must the Son of man be lifted up,
¹⁵that every one who believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.
¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.
¹⁷For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him. (John 3:14‑17)

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Acts 2:23• ²³--him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by the hand of lawless men, have crucified and slain. (Acts 2:23)

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Acts 4:26‑28• ²⁶The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.
²⁷For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city
²⁸to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before should come to pass. (Acts 4:26‑28)

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Rom. 3:24‑26• ²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
²⁵whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;
²⁶for the shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of the faith of Jesus. (Rom. 3:24‑26)

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Rom. 4:25• ²⁵who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned. (Rom. 4:25)

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Rom. 5:6‑10• ⁶for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.
⁷For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;
⁸but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.
⁹Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.
¹⁰For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life. (Rom. 5:6‑10)

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Rom. 8:32• ³²He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things? (Rom. 8:32)

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2 Cor. 5:21• ²¹Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that *we* might become God's righteousness in him. (2 Cor. 5:21)

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Gal. 3:13• ¹³Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one hanged upon a tree,) (Gal. 3:13)

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Col. 1:19‑20• ¹⁹for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell,
²⁰and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross--by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens. (Col. 1:19‑20)

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Heb. 10:5‑10• ⁵Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.
⁶Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.
⁷Then I said, Lo, I come (in the roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.
⁸Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);
⁹then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;
¹⁰by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Heb. 10:5‑10)

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1 Peter 1:18‑20• ¹⁸knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,
¹⁹but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ,
²⁰foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes, (1 Peter 1:18‑20)

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1 Peter 2:24‑25• ²⁴who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed.
²⁵For ye were going astray as sheep, but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls. (1 Peter 2:24‑25)

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1 Peter 3:18• ¹⁸for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, (1 Peter 3:18)

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1 John 2:2• ²and *he* is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world. (1 John 2:2)

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1 John 4:9‑10• ⁹Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
¹⁰Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:9‑10)

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Rev. 13:8• ⁸and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb. (Rev. 13:8)

the sheep.

Matt. 26:31,56• ³¹Then saith Jesus to them, All *ye* shall be offended in me during this night. For it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
⁵⁶But all this is come to pass that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled. (Matt. 26:31,56)

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Mark 14:27,50• ²⁷And Jesus says to them, All ye shall be offended, for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad.
⁵⁰And all left him and fled. (Mark 14:27,50)

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John 16:32• ³²Behold, the hour is coming, and has come, that ye shall be scattered, each to his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. (John 16:32)

I will turn.

Zech. 11:7,11• ⁷So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
¹¹And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock that gave heed to me knew that it was the word of Jehovah. (Zech. 11:7,11)

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Matt. 10:42• ⁴²And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. (Matt. 10:42)

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Matt. 18:10‑11,14• ¹⁰See that ye do not despise one of these little ones; for I say unto you that their angels in the heavens continually behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens.
¹¹For the Son of man has come to save that which was lost.
¹⁴So it is not the will of your Father who is in the heavens that one of these little ones should perish. (Matt. 18:10‑11,14)

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Luke 12:32• ³²Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32)

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Luke 17:2• ²It would be more profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones. (Luke 17:2)

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John 18:8‑9• ⁸Jesus answered, I told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go away;
⁹that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, As to those whom thou hast given me, I have not lost one of them. (John 18:8‑9)

• (Matt. 26:30-31). This makes it plain that the death of Christ in His character as the Shepherd is signified, and thus supplies the key to the interpretation of the passage. The address is to the sword, the sword being a figure of the judicial stroke that fell upon Christ in His death (compare Jer. 47:6); and the command to smite reveals that while the Jews by wicked hands took and crucified their Messiah, He was yet delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Wounded in the house of His friends was man’s work and man’s wickedness, smitten by the sword of judgment, though man was the instrument, brings in rather God’s action. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

• He laid down His life for the sheep. He was smitten of Jehovah’s sword in the language of our Scripture. If, however, the term shepherd points to His official place as the King, “the man that is My fellow” reveals to us His divinity; for of no other than He, who was one with the Father (John 10), who subsisted in the form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God (Phil. 2), and who, as the Word was with God and was God (John 1), could such language be employed. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

• A twofold immediate effect here follows. First, the sheep are scattered. This was fulfilled literally on the night of His apprehension, when all His disciples, those who had acknowledged Him as the Shepherd of Israel, forsook Him and fled; and in another way, we cannot doubt, it has been accomplished in the scattering of the Jews over the face of the whole earth. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

• God would cover with His hand the “little ones” who had recognized their Messiah, the remnant. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, even against the manc that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

JND Translation Notes

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Adam, ver. 5; Geber, ver. 7. see Job 3.3.