Zechariah 13:7

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Zechariah 13:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

O sword

My shepherd

Smite

The sheep

Matthew 26:31

Mark 14:27

John 16:32

I will turn

General references

Matthew 26:54

Luke 9:22

Luke 24:26

Bible References

O sword

If 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.

In 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.

Alas! sword of Jehovah, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Withdraw into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

Seeing 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;

My shepherd

Thus saith Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter,

He 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.

And 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.

And 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.

(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.)

The 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.

But 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,

And when the chief shepherd is manifested ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

Smite

Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we, we did regard him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Seventy 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.

On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, thus must the Son of man be lifted up,

him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by the hand of lawless men, have crucified and slain.

The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.

He 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?

Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

Christ 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,)

for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell,

Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,

who 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.

for 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,

and he is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.

Herein 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.

and 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.

The sheep

Then 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.

And 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.

Behold, 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.

I will turn

So 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.

And 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.

See 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.

Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom.

It 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.

Jesus answered, I told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go away;

General references

How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be?

saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?