Zechariah 11:4

¶ Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

Thus saith {H559} the LORD {H3068} my God {H430}; Feed {H7462} the flock {H6629} of the slaughter {H2028};

ADONAI my God says this: "Shepherd the flock for slaughter.

This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,

Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Zechariah 11:7 (7 votes)

    And I will feed the flock of slaughter, [even] you, O 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.

  • Matthew 23:37 (3 votes)

    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under [her] wings, and ye would not!

  • Micah 5:4 (2 votes)

    And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

  • Romans 15:8 (2 votes)

    Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises [made] unto the fathers:

  • John 20:17 (2 votes)

    Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your God.

  • Matthew 15:24 (2 votes)

    But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

  • Zechariah 14:5 (2 votes)

    And ye shall flee [to] the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, [and] all the saints with thee.