The commencement of this chapter relates to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish polity, probably by the Babylonians; at least in the first instance, as the fourth verse speaks of the people thus threatened as …
1Oh Líbano, abre tus puertas, y consuma el fuego tus cedros.
2Aúlla, oh ciprés, porque el cedro cayó, porque los árboles magníficos son derribados. Aullad, encinas de Basán, porque el bosque espeso es derribado.
3Voz de aullido de pastores, porque su magnificencia es asolada; estruendo de rugidos de cachorros de leones, porque la gloria del Jordán es destruida.
4Así ha dicho Jehová mi Dios: Apacienta las ovejas de la matanza,
5a las cuales matan sus compradores, y no se tienen por culpables; y el que las vende, dice: Bendito sea Jehová, porque he enriquecido; ni sus pastores tienen piedad de ellas.
6Por tanto, no tendré ya más piedad de los moradores de la tierra, dice Jehová; porque he aquí, yo entregaré los hombres cada cual en mano de su compañero y en mano de su rey; y asolarán la tierra, y yo no los libraré de sus manos.
7Apacenté, pues, las ovejas de la matanza, esto es, a los pobres del rebaño. Y tomé para mí dos cayados: al uno puse por nombre Gracia, y al otro Ataduras; y apacenté las ovejas.
8Y destruí a tres pastores en un mes; pues mi alma se impacientó contra ellos, y también el alma de ellos me aborreció a mí.
9Y dije: No os apacentaré; la que muriere, que muera; y la que se perdiere, que se pierda; y las que quedaren, que cada una coma la carne de su compañera.
10Tomé luego mi cayado Gracia, y lo quebré, para romper mi pacto que concerté con todos los pueblos.
11Y fue deshecho en ese día, y así conocieron los pobres del rebaño que miraban a mí, que era palabra de Jehová.
12Y les dije: Si os parece bien, dadme mi salario; y si no, dejadlo. Y pesaron por mi salario treinta piezas de plata.
13Y me dijo Jehová: Échalo al tesoro; ¡hermoso precio con que me han apreciado! Y tomé las treinta piezas de plata, y las eché en la casa de Jehová al tesoro.
14Quebré luego el otro cayado, Ataduras, para romper la hermandad entre Judá e Israel.
15Y me dijo Jehová: Toma aún los aperos de un pastor insensato;
16porque he aquí, yo levanto en la tierra a un pastor que no visitará las perdidas, ni buscará la pequeña, ni curará la perniquebrada, ni llevará la cansada a cuestas, sino que comerá la carne de la gorda, y romperá sus pezuñas.
17¡Ay del pastor inútil que abandona el ganado! Hiera la espada su brazo, y su ojo derecho; del todo se secará su brazo, y su ojo derecho será enteramente oscurecido.
ADAM CLARKE BIBLE COMMENTARY
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Versículo 1
I. Open thy doors, O Lebanon - I will give Mr. Joseph Mede's note upon this verse: -
Open thy doors, O Lebanon - I will give Mr. Joseph Mede's note upon this verse: -
"That which moveth me more than the rest, is in chap. 11, which contains a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem, and a description of the wickedness of the inhabitants, for which God would give them to the sword, and have no more pity upon them. It is expounded of the destruction by Titus; but methinks such a prophecy was nothing seasonable for Zachary's time, (when the city yet for a great part lay in her ruins, and the temple had not yet recovered hers), nor agreeable to the scope. Zachary's commission, who, together with his colleague Haggai, was sent to encourage the people, lately returned from captivity, to build their temple, and to instaurate their commonwealth. Was this a fit time to foretell the destruction of both, while they were yet but a-building? And by Zachary too, who was to encourage them? Would not this better befit the desolation by Nebuchadnezzar?" I really think so. See Mr. J. Mede's 61. Epistle.
Lebanon signifies the temple, because built of materials principally brought from that place.
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II. Howl, fir tree - This seems to point out the fall and destruction of all the mighty men.
Howl, fir tree - This seems to point out the fall and destruction of all the mighty men.
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Versículo 3
III. Young lions - Princes and rulers. By shepherds, kings or priests may be intended.
Young lions - Princes and rulers. By shepherds, kings or priests may be intended.
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Versículo 4
IV. Feed the flock of the slaughter - This people resemble a flock of sheep fattened for the shambles…
Feed the flock of the slaughter - This people resemble a flock of sheep fattened for the shambles; feed, instruct, this people who are about to be slaughtered.
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V. Whose possessors - Governors and false prophets, slay them, by leading them to those things that …
Whose possessors - Governors and false prophets, slay them, by leading them to those things that will bring them to destruction.
And they that sell them - Give them up to idolatry; and bless God, strange to tell, that they get secular advantage by the establishment of this false religion.
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Versículo 6
VI. For I will no more pity - I have determined to deliver them into the hands of the Chaldeans.
For I will no more pity - I have determined to deliver them into the hands of the Chaldeans.
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Versículo 7
VII. And I wilt feed the flock of slaughter - I showed them what God had revealed to me relative to th…
And I wilt feed the flock of slaughter - I showed them what God had revealed to me relative to the evils coming upon the land; and I did this the more especially for the sake of the poor of the flock.
Two staves - Two shepherd's crooks. One I called Beauty - that probably by which they marked the sheep; dipping the end into vermillion, or some red liquid. And this was done when they were to mark every tenth sheep, as it came out of the field, when the tithe was to be set apart for the Lord.
The other I called Bands - Probably that with the hook or crook at the head of it, by which the shepherd was wont to catch the sheep by the horns or legs when he wished to bring any to hand.
And I fed the flock - These two rods show the beauty and union of the people, while under God as their Shepherd. It was the delight of God to see them in a state of peace and harmony.
VIII
Versículo 8
VIII. Three shepherds also I cut off in one month - Taking this literally, some think the three shepher…
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, etc.
3. The magistracy, the great sanhedrin, and the smaller councils.
These were all annihilated by the Roman conquest.
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Versículo 9
IX. I will not feed you - I shall instruct you no longer: some of you are appointed to death by famin…
I will not feed you - I shall instruct you no longer: some of you are appointed to death by famine; others, to be cut off by the sword; and others of you, to such desperation that ye shall destroy one another.
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Versículo 10
X. I took my staff - Beauty, and cut it asunder - And thus I showed that I determined no longer to p…
I took my staff - Beauty, and cut it asunder - And thus I showed that I determined no longer to preserve them in their free and glorious state. And thus I brake my covenant with them, which they had broken on their part already.
XI
Versículo 11
XI. So the poor of the flock - The pious, who attended to my teaching, saw that this was the word - t…
So the poor of the flock - The pious, who attended to my teaching, saw that this was the word - the design, of God.
XII
Versículo 12
XII. If ye think good, give me my price - "Give me my hire." And we find they rated it contemptuously;…
If ye think good, give me my price - "Give me my hire." And we find they rated it contemptuously; thirty pieces of silver being the price of a slave, Exo 21:32.
XIII
Versículo 13
XIII. And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter - Jehovah calls the price of his prophet his o…
And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter - Jehovah calls the price of his prophet his own price; and commands that it should not be accepted, but given to a potter, to foreshadow the transaction related Mat 27:7.
"Earthen vessels were used in the temple; and we may suppose that some Levites were employed within the sacred precincts to furnish them. To these, the humblest of his ministers in the temple, God commands that the degrading price should be cast." This is the substance of the notes on these two verses, given by Abp. Newcome.
We may look at it in another light, Give me my price! הבו שכרי habu sichri, bring my price, or give him any price; that is, Give the money to Judas which you have agreed to give him; for he can neither betray me nor you crucify me, but my own permission. But if not, forbear; take time to consider this bloody business, and in time forbear. For though I permit you to do it, yet remember that the permission does not necessitate you to do it; and the salvation of the world may be effected without this treachery and murder.
See my notes on this place, Mat 27:9, where I have examined the evidence for the reading of "Zechariah the prophet," instead of "Jeremiah."
XIV
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XIV. That I might break the brotherhood - I cannot, says Newcome, explain this passage, without suppos…
That I might break the brotherhood - I cannot, says Newcome, explain this passage, without supposing that the kingdom of Israel subsisted when the prophet wrote it; and that either the wars between Judah and Israel are referred to, (see Kg2 16:5), or the captivity of the ten tribes, when the brotherly connection between these kingdoms ceased.
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Versículo 15
XV. The instruments of a foolish shepherd - Such as a bag without bread, a scrip without measure, and…
The instruments of a foolish shepherd - Such as a bag without bread, a scrip without measure, and a staff without a hook, etc., things that were needless or of no use; to point out to the Jewish pastors, who took no care of the flock, but devoured them, or ruled them with force and with cruelty.
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Versículo 16
16. I will raise up a shepherd in the land - Some wicked king; and Newcome supposes Hoshea may be mea…
I will raise up a shepherd in the land - Some wicked king; and Newcome supposes Hoshea may be meant. See Kg2 17:1, Kg2 17:2, and to such an abominable sovereign the prophecy may well apply.
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Versículo 17
17. Wo to the idol shepherd - רעי האליל roi haelil, "the worthless," or "good for nothing shepherd." …
Wo to the idol shepherd - רעי האליל roi haelil, "the worthless," or "good for nothing shepherd." The shepherd in name and office, but not performing the work of one. See Joh 10:11.
The sword shall be upon his arm - Punishment shall be executed upon the wicked Jews, and especially their wicked kings and priests. See Zac 11:16.
Arm - the secular power; right eye - the ecclesiastical state.
His arm shall be clean dried up - The secular power shall be broken, and become utterly inefficient.
His right eye shall be utterly darkened - Prophecy shall be restrained; and the whole state, ecclesiastical and civil, shall be so completely eclipsed, that none of their functions shall be performed. This may refer to the worthless and wicked governor mentioned in the preceding verse.
There are several things in this chapter that are very obscure, and we can hardly say what opinion is right; nor is it at all clear whether they refer to a very early or late period of the Jewish history.
Antiguo Testamento
Zechariah — Capítulo 11
The commencement of this chapter relates to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish polity, probably by the Babylonians; at least in the first instance, as the fourth verse speaks of the people thus threatened as …
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1Oh Líbano, abre tus puertas, y consuma el fuego tus cedros.
2Aúlla, oh ciprés, porque el cedro cayó, porque los árboles magníficos son derribados. Aullad, encinas de Basán, porque el bosque espeso es derribado.
3Voz de aullido de pastores, porque su magnificencia es asolada; estruendo de rugidos de cachorros de leones, porque la gloria del Jordán es destruida.
4Así ha dicho Jehová mi Dios: Apacienta las ovejas de la matanza,
5a las cuales matan sus compradores, y no se tienen por culpables; y el que las vende, dice: Bendito sea Jehová, porque he enriquecido; ni sus pastores tienen piedad de ellas.
6Por tanto, no tendré ya más piedad de los moradores de la tierra, dice Jehová; porque he aquí, yo entregaré los hombres cada cual en mano de su compañero y en mano de su rey; y asolarán la tierra, y yo no los libraré de sus manos.
7Apacenté, pues, las ovejas de la matanza, esto es, a los pobres del rebaño. Y tomé para mí dos cayados: al uno puse por nombre Gracia, y al otro Ataduras; y apacenté las ovejas.
8Y destruí a tres pastores en un mes; pues mi alma se impacientó contra ellos, y también el alma de ellos me aborreció a mí.
9Y dije: No os apacentaré; la que muriere, que muera; y la que se perdiere, que se pierda; y las que quedaren, que cada una coma la carne de su compañera.
10Tomé luego mi cayado Gracia, y lo quebré, para romper mi pacto que concerté con todos los pueblos.
11Y fue deshecho en ese día, y así conocieron los pobres del rebaño que miraban a mí, que era palabra de Jehová.
12Y les dije: Si os parece bien, dadme mi salario; y si no, dejadlo. Y pesaron por mi salario treinta piezas de plata.
13Y me dijo Jehová: Échalo al tesoro; ¡hermoso precio con que me han apreciado! Y tomé las treinta piezas de plata, y las eché en la casa de Jehová al tesoro.
14Quebré luego el otro cayado, Ataduras, para romper la hermandad entre Judá e Israel.
15Y me dijo Jehová: Toma aún los aperos de un pastor insensato;
16porque he aquí, yo levanto en la tierra a un pastor que no visitará las perdidas, ni buscará la pequeña, ni curará la perniquebrada, ni llevará la cansada a cuestas, sino que comerá la carne de la gorda, y romperá sus pezuñas.
17¡Ay del pastor inútil que abandona el ganado! Hiera la espada su brazo, y su ojo derecho; del todo se secará su brazo, y su ojo derecho será enteramente oscurecido.
ADAM CLARKE BIBLE COMMENTARY
Versículo 1
I. Open thy doors, O Lebanon - I will give Mr. Joseph Mede's note upon this verse: -
Versículo 2
II. Howl, fir tree - This seems to point out the fall and destruction of all the mighty men.
Versículo 3
III. Young lions - Princes and rulers. By shepherds, kings or priests may be intended.
Versículo 4
IV. Feed the flock of the slaughter - This people resemble a flock of sheep fattened for the shambles…
Versículo 5
V. Whose possessors - Governors and false prophets, slay them, by leading them to those things that …
Versículo 6
VI. For I will no more pity - I have determined to deliver them into the hands of the Chaldeans.
Versículo 7
VII. And I wilt feed the flock of slaughter - I showed them what God had revealed to me relative to th…
Versículo 8
VIII. Three shepherds also I cut off in one month - Taking this literally, some think the three shepher…
Versículo 9
IX. I will not feed you - I shall instruct you no longer: some of you are appointed to death by famin…
Versículo 10
X. I took my staff - Beauty, and cut it asunder - And thus I showed that I determined no longer to p…
Versículo 11
XI. So the poor of the flock - The pious, who attended to my teaching, saw that this was the word - t…
Versículo 12
XII. If ye think good, give me my price - "Give me my hire." And we find they rated it contemptuously;…
Versículo 13
XIII. And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter - Jehovah calls the price of his prophet his o…
Versículo 14
XIV. That I might break the brotherhood - I cannot, says Newcome, explain this passage, without suppos…
Versículo 15
XV. The instruments of a foolish shepherd - Such as a bag without bread, a scrip without measure, and…
Versículo 16
16. I will raise up a shepherd in the land - Some wicked king; and Newcome supposes Hoshea may be mea…
Versículo 17
17. Wo to the idol shepherd - רעי האליל roi haelil, "the worthless," or "good for nothing shepherd." …