Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Zechariah 11:6

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6. Jehovah, in vengeance for their rejection of Messiah, gave them over to intestine feuds and Roman rule. The Zealots and other factious Jews expelled and slew one another by turns at the last invasion by Rome. his king —Vespasian or Titus: they themselves ( John 19:15 ) had said, unconsciously realizing Zechariah's words, identifying Rome's king with Judah's ("his") king, "We have no king but Cæsar." God took them at their word, and gave them the Roman king, who "smote (literally, 'dashed in pieces') their land," breaking up their polity, when they rejected their true King who would have saved them. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

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bible-text/zec-11-6

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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