--- title: "Bullinger" description: "Open, to. Figure of speech Apostrophe. App-6 . fir = cypress. for. If the cedar is fallen, how much more the cypress. the . The 1611 edition of the A" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/zechariah/11" --- **Open,** to. Figure of speech *Apostrophe.* App-6 . **fir** = cypress. **for.** If the cedar is fallen, how much more the cypress. **the** . The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "all the". **mighty** = honourable, or majestic ones. **forest of the vintage** = the inaccessible forest. **shepherds** = the rulers of the State. **young lions** . The rapacious nobles. **Thus saith** = Thus hath said the Lord. Hebrew. *Jehovah* . App-4 . **God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . **Feed** = Tend. Zechariah is to represent a good shepherd, and is sent to the People whose rulers destroyed them (verses: [Zechariah 11:5](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/5) , [Zechariah 11:16](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/16) ). **of** = exposed to, or destined for slaughter. Genitive of Relation App-17 . Compare [Romans 8:36](../../../kjv/romans/8/36) . **am rich** = am become rich, [and therefore can sell them cheaply]. **saith the LORD** = [is] Jehovah's oracle. **men** , Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 . **every one.** Hebrew. *'ish* , App-14 . **And I will feed** = So I [Zechariah] tended. **even you, O poor of the flock.** Reading the two words (in Hebrew) as one word (with the Septuagint) it should be "for the sheep-traffickers", as in [Zechariah 14:21](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/21) ("Caaanite"). **I took.** Compare verses: [Zechariah 11:7](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/7) , [Zechariah 11:10](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/10) , [Zechariah 11:13](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/13) , [Zechariah 11:15](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/15) with [Zechariah 6:10](../../../kjv/zechariah/6/10) , [Zechariah 6:11](../../../kjv/zechariah/6/11) . **staves.** Which shepherds use; the crook or staff, and the club. See note on [Psalms 23:4](../../../kjv/psalms/23/4) , **Beauty** = Graciousness, **Bands** = Union. **cut off** = sent off. They are unnamed. **soul,** Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . **that,** &c. = the dying will die. **eat every one,** &c.: i.e. destroy one another. **people** = peoples: i.e. here, tribes. **the poor of the flock** = the sheep-traflickers; as [Zechariah 11:7](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/7) . **waited upon** = were watching me ( 1Sa 1:12 ; [1 Samuel 19:11](../../../kjv/1-samuel/19/11) .[Psalms 59](../../../kjv/psalms/59) , title). **price** = wage. **thirty pieces of silver.** The damages for injury done to a servant. Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 21:32](../../../kjv/exodus/21/32) ). This is not the passage referred to in [Matthew 27:9](../../../kjv/matthew/27/9) . Sec App-161 . That was "spoken" by Jeremiah; *this* was written by Zechariah. **Cast it.** As in [Genesis 21:15](../../../kjv/genesis/21/15) . [2 Chronicles 24:10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/24/10) . unto the potter. The Syriac reads "into the treasury". **potter** = fashioner. The material cast to, so as to be used by, the fashioner determines the meaning of the word (Hebrew. *yazar)* . If clay, then a potter ([Jeremiah 18:4](../../../kjv/jeremiah/18/4) ; [Jeremiah 19:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/1) ). If stone, then a jeweller, or mason (Ex. Zec 28:11 , [2 Samuel 5:11](../../../kjv/2-samuel/5/11) ; [1 Chronicles 22:15](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/22/15) ). *If wood,* then a carpenter ([1 Samuel 5:11](../../../kjv/1-samuel/5/11) . 2Ki 12:11 . [1 Chronicles 14:1](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/14/1) .[Isaiah 44:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/44/13); [Isaiah 44:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/44/13) ). If *iron,* then a smith ([2 Chronicles 24:12](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/24/12) .[Isaiah 44:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/44/12); [Isaiah 44:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/44/12) ). If *gold,* then a goldsmith ([Hosea 8:6](../../../kjv/hosea/8/6) ). If *silver,* then a silversmith ([Hosea 13:2](../../../kjv/hosea/13/2) ). The casting of silver to a potter was as incongruous as casting clay to a silversmith. See App-161 . **goodly** = ample. Used of a wide garment. There is no evidence of irony here or elsewhere in Zechariah. The Hebrew *'eder* denotes size and amplitude, as in [Jonah 3:6](../../../kjv/jonah/3/6) and [Micah 2:8](../../../kjv/micah/2/8) . **prised** = priced. **of them** : i.e. by them. But some codices read "by you **instruments** = implements. **foolish** = worthless. Judah and Israel had rejected these, and later on they rejected Messiah the good Shepherd; hence the threatening in [Zechariah 11:16-17](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/16-17) . **lo.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 , This Looks forward to the Antichrist; for one of his titles is "the idol shepherd "of [Zechariah 11:17](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/17) . **those that be cut off** = the perishing. **the young one** = the straying. **that that is broken** = the wounded. **feed** = nourish. **that standeth still** = the weak. **idol** = idol's. 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