Zechariah 13:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

Zechariah 13:5 —

Old words in this verse

husbandman: — farmer, one who tends the land.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 7:14
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
Acts 19:17-20
And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-6)

Behold the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, the sin of the church; for therefore was the Son of God manifested, to take away our sin, 1 John 3:5. I. He takes away the guilt of sin by the blood of his cross (Zech. 13:1): In that day, in the gospel-day, there shall be a fountain opened, that is, provision made for the cleansing of all those from the pollutions of sin who truly repent an…

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

(vv. 5)

5-6. The detection of one of the false prophets dramatically represented. He is seized by some zealous vindicator of the law, and in fear cries out, “I am no prophet.” man--that is, one. taught me to keep cattle--As “keeping cattle” is not the same as to be “an husbandman,” translate rather, “Has used (or ‘appropriated’) me as a servant,” namely, in husbandry [Maurer]. However, husbandry and keepi…