Zechariah 11:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Zechariah 11:8

Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

In

Hosea 5:7

Matthew 23:34

Matthew 24:50

And my

Lothed them

John 15:18

General references

Bible References

In

They have dealt treacherously against the Lord,
For they have borne illegitimate (pagan) children.
Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land [bringing judgment and captivity].

“Therefore, take notice, I am sending you prophets and wise men [interpreters, teachers] and scribes [men educated in the Mosaic Law and the writings of the prophets]; some of them you will kill and even crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues, and pursue and persecute from city to city,

the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour of which he is not aware,

And my

I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject nor separate itself from you.

“The Lord saw it, and rejected them,
Out of indignation with His sons and His daughters.

The boastful and the arrogant will not stand in Your sight;
You hate all who do evil.

The sons of Ephraim were armed as archers and carrying bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people
And He detested His own inheritance.

“My inheritance has become to Me
Like a lion in the forest;
She has raised her voice and roared against Me;
So I have come to [treat her as if I] hate her.

Do not treat us with contempt and condemn us, for Your own name’s sake;
Do not disgrace Your glorious throne;
Remember [with consideration] and do not break Your [solemn] covenant with us.

All their wickedness [says the Lord] is focused in Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the wickedness of their [idolatrous] practices
I will drive them out of My house (the land of Israel)!
I will love them no longer;
All their princes are rebels.

But My righteous one [the one justified by faith] shall live by faith [respecting man’s relationship to God and trusting Him];
And if he draws back [shrinking in fear], My soul has no delight in him.

Lothed them

This is what the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, Israel’s Holy One says,
To the thoroughly despised One,
To the One hated by the nation
To the Servant of rulers,
“Kings will see and arise,
Princes shall also bow down,
Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

I have a baptism [of great suffering] with which to be baptized, and how [greatly] I am distressed until it is accomplished!

But his citizens [the residents of his new kingdom] hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be a king over us.’

The world cannot hate you [since you are part of it], but it does hate Me because I denounce it and testify that its deeds are evil.

“If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

General references

An unjust man is repulsive to the righteous,
And he who is upright in the way [of the Lord] is repulsive to the wicked.

For at that time there will be a great tribulation (pressure, distress, oppression), such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will [again].

In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, mocked Him, saying,

Leaving them, He again boarded the boat and left for the other side.

Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division [between believers and unbelievers];

But his citizens [the residents of his new kingdom] hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be a king over us.’

But they were insistent and unrelenting, demanding with loud voices that Jesus be crucified. And their voices began to prevail and accomplish their purpose.

“If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before it hated you.