Zechariah 11:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

Zechariah 11:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 6:10-12
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. …
Matthew 23:17
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Matthew 15:14
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Jeremiah 2:26-27
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, …
Luke 11:40
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-17)

God, having shown the misery of this people in their being justly abandoned by the good Shepherd, here shows their further misery in being shamefully abused by a foolish shepherd. The prophet is himself to personate and represent this pretended shepherd (Zech. 11:15): Take unto thee the instruments or accoutrements of a foolish shepherd, that are no way fit for the business, such a shepherd’s coat…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. yet--“take again”; as in Zec 11:7 previously he had taken other implements. instruments--the accoutrements, namely, the shepherd’s crook and staff, wallet, &c. Assume the character of a bad (“foolish” in Scripture is synonymous with wicked, Psa 14:1) shepherd, as before thou assumedst that of a good shepherd. Since the Jews would not have Messiah, “the Good Shepherd” (Joh 10:11), they were giv…