Zechariah 11
King James Version · 17 verses · 495 cross-references linking it to 233 other chapters
Explore Zechariah 11 in the interactive map- 1Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.34 cross-references: Jeremiah 22:6–7, Jeremiah 22:23, Luke 21:23–24, Deuteronomy 32:22, Luke 19:41–44
- 2Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.23 cross-references: Isaiah 32:15–19, Amos 6:1, Isaiah 2:12–17, Ezekiel 31:2–3, Luke 23:31
- 3There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.39 cross-references: Jeremiah 50:44, Jeremiah 25:34–36, Acts 7:52, Zechariah 11:15–17, James 5:1–6
- 4Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;21 cross-references: Zechariah 11:7, Matthew 23:37, Micah 5:4, Romans 15:8, John 20:17
- 5Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.38 cross-references: Jeremiah 50:7, 1 Timothy 6:5–10, Hosea 12:8, Deuteronomy 29:19–21, Jeremiah 23:1–2
- 6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.44 cross-references: Jeremiah 13:14, Matthew 22:7, Isaiah 9:19–21, Micah 5:8, Hebrews 10:26–31
- 7And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O 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.35 cross-references: Zechariah 11:14, Isaiah 11:4, Zechariah 11:4, Zephaniah 3:12, Isaiah 61:1
- 8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.68 cross-references: Isaiah 49:7, John 15:18, Matthew 23:34–36, John 7:7, Hosea 5:7
- 9Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.24 cross-references: Jeremiah 43:11, Matthew 13:10–11, Psalms 69:22–28, Isaiah 9:19–21, Jeremiah 19:9
- 10And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.29 cross-references: Zechariah 11:7, Psalms 89:39, Jeremiah 31:31–32, Hebrews 8:8–13, Jeremiah 14:21
- 11And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the Lord.37 cross-references: Zephaniah 3:12, Luke 7:22, Romans 11:7–12, Isaiah 26:8–9, Isaiah 40:31
- 12And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.18 cross-references: Matthew 26:15, Exodus 21:32, Mark 14:10–11, Luke 22:3–6, John 13:27–30
- 13And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.9 cross-references: Matthew 27:3–10, Acts 1:18–19, Isaiah 53:2–3, Acts 4:11, Isaiah 54:7–10
- 14Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.18 cross-references: Isaiah 9:21, Zechariah 11:9, Acts 23:7–10, James 3:16, Isaiah 11:13
- 15And the Lord said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.17 cross-references: Isaiah 6:10–12, Lamentations 2:14, Ezekiel 13:3, Luke 11:40, Matthew 15:14
- 16For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.25 cross-references: Jeremiah 23:2, Ezekiel 34:2–6, Isaiah 40:11, Luke 12:45–46, Genesis 31:38
- 17Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.42 cross-references: Jeremiah 23:1, Ezekiel 13:3, 1 Corinthians 8:4, Ezekiel 34:2, Isaiah 42:19–20
Explained connections
- Thirty pieces of silver
In Zechariah's sign-act the shepherd's wages are weighed out as thirty pieces of silver — the price of a slave in Exodus 21:32, an insult to God's shepherd. The chief priests pay Judas exactly that sum to betray Jesus.
- The potter's field
Zechariah throws the silver to the potter in the house of the LORD. Matthew says the priests used Judas' returned silver to buy a potter's field; he attributes the quotation to Jeremiah, likely because he blends it with Jeremiah's potter and field-purchase passages (Jer 18–19, 32).
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