Zechariah 11:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Whose 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.

Possessors

Hold

Jeremiah 2:3

Jeremiah 50:7

Sell

Blessed

Deuteronomy 29:19

Hosea 12:8

1 Timothy 6:5

And their

Ezekiel 34:4

John 10:1

Bible References

Possessors

“Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!” declares the Lord.

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been

feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds

feed the flock?

And I said,
“Hear now, heads of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel.
Is it not for you to know justice?

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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

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They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

Hold

“Israel was holy to the Lord,
The first of His harvest.

All who ate of it became guilty;

Evil came upon them,” declares the Lord.’”

“All who came upon them have devoured them;
And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,
Inasmuch as they have sinned against the Lord who is the habitation of righteousness,
Even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

Sell

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it for us to kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

I said to them, “We according to our ability have redeemed our Jewish brothers who were sold to the nations; now would you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us?” Then they were silent and could not find a word to say.

And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and

human lives.

Blessed

It shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will boast, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the watered land with the dry.’

And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,
I have found wealth for myself;
In all my labors they will find in me

No iniquity, which would be sin.”

and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

And their

Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you sought for the lost; but with force and with severity you have dominated them.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.