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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is myc fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smited the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

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Phil. 2:6• ⁶who, being in God's form, thought it not an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; (Phil. 2:6)

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Matt. 26:31• ³¹Then saith Jesus to them, All ye shall be offended in me during this night. For it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. (Matt. 26:31)

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O sword.

Deut. 32:41‑42• ⁴¹If I whet my glittering sword,{HR}And mine hand take hold on judgment;{HR}I will render vengeance to mine enemies,{HR}And will reward them that hate me.
⁴²I will make mine arrows drunk with blood,{HR}And my sword shall devour flesh;{HR}And that with the blood of the slain and of the captives,{HR}From the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. (Deut. 32:41‑42)

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Isa. 27:1• ¹In that day Jehovah with his sore and great and strong sword will visit leviathan, the piercing serpent, and leviathan, the crooked serpent; and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)

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Jer. 47:6• ⁶O thou sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. (Jer. 47:6)

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Ezek. 21:4‑5,9‑10,28• ⁴Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north;
⁵that all flesh may know that I Jehovah have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return anymore.
⁹Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith Jehovah; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished;
¹⁰it is sharpened to make a sore slaughter, it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
²⁸And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering: (Ezek. 21:4‑5,9‑10,28)

my shepherd.

Zech. 11:4,7• ⁴Thus saith Jehovah my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter,
⁷And 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. (Zech. 11:4,7)

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Isa. 40:11• ¹¹He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom; he will gently lead those that give suck. (Isa. 40:11)

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Ezek. 34:23‑24• ²³And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
²⁴And I Jehovah will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I Jehovah have spoken it. (Ezek. 34:23‑24)

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Ezek. 37:24• ²⁴And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. (Ezek. 37:24)

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Mic. 5:2,4• ²But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel: his goings forth have been of old from everlasting.
⁴He shall stand and feed in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God; and they shall abide; for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. (Mic. 5:2,4)

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John 10:10‑18• ¹⁰The thief cometh not unless that he may steal and slaughter and destroy; I came that they might have life, and have abundantly.
¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
¹²[But] he that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholdeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf snatcheth them, and scattereth;
¹³and the hireling fleeth because he is a hireling, and no care hath he for the sheep.
¹⁴I am the good shepherd, and know mine, and mine know me,
¹⁵even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep.
¹⁶And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must lead, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock , one shepherd.
¹⁷On this account the Father loveth me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again.
¹⁸No one taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again: this commandment I received from my Father. (John 10:10‑18)

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Heb. 13:20• ²⁰But the God of peace, that brought again from among [the] dead our Lord Jesus the great Shepherd of the sheep in virtue of blood of an everlasting covenant, (Heb. 13:20)

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1 Peter 5:4• ⁴And when the Chief-shepherd is manifested, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory. (1 Peter 5:4)

the man.

Isa. 9:6• ⁶For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name is called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of eternity , Prince of Peace. (Isa. 9:6)

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Jer. 23:5‑6• ⁵Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
⁶In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, JEHOVAH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. (Jer. 23:5‑6)

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Hos. 12:3‑5• ³He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God.
⁴Yea; he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;
⁵even Jehovah the God of hosts; Jehovah is his memorial. (Hos. 12:3‑5)

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Matt. 1:23• ²³Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, 'God with us.' (Matt. 1:23)

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Matt. 11:27• ²⁷All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father, nor does anyone know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son may be pleased to reveal [him]. (Matt. 11:27)

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John 1:1‑2• ¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
²The same was in the beginning with God. (John 1:1‑2)

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John 5:17‑18• ¹⁷But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
¹⁸For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God. (John 5:17‑18)

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John 5:23• ²³that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father that sent him. (John 5:23)

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John 8:58• ⁵⁸Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was , I am. (John 8:58)

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John 10:30,38• ³⁰I and the Father are one.
³⁸but if I do, even if ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may perceive and know that the Father [is] in me, and I in the Father. (John 10:30,38)

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John 14:1,9‑11,23• ¹Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe on God, believe on me also.
⁹Jesus saith to him, Am I so long a time with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; [and] how sayest thou, Show us the Father?
¹⁰Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I do not speak from myself; but the Father that abideth in me, he doeth the works.
¹¹Believe me that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in me; but, if not, believe me for the very works' sake.
²³Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. (John 14:1,9‑11,23)

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John 16:15• ¹⁵All things that the Father hath are mine: on this account I said, that he receiveth of mine and will announce [it] to you. (John 16:15)

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John 17:21‑23• ²¹that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
²²And the glory which thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one as we [are] one,
²³I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, [and] that the world may know that thou didst send me and lovedst them as thou lovedst me. (John 17:21‑23)

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Phil. 2:6• ⁶who, being in God's form, thought it not an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; (Phil. 2:6)

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Col. 1:15‑19• ¹⁵who is [the] image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;
¹⁶for by him was created the universe, the things in the heavens and those on the earth, the seen and the unseen, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities. The universe has been created through him and for him.
¹⁷He is before all things, and the universe in him subsisteth.
¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might be in all things pre-eminent:
¹⁹for in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell; (Col. 1:15‑19)

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Heb. 1:6‑12• ⁶But again, when he bringeth in the firstborn into the inhabited earth, he saith, And let all God's angels worship him.
⁷And indeed as to the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels winds and his ministers a flame of fire;
⁸but as to the Son, Thy throne, O God, [is] forever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom.
⁹Thou lovedst righteousness and hatedst lawlessness: for this reason, God, thy God, anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy companions.
¹⁰And, Thou in the beginning, Lord, foundedst the earth, and the heavens are works of thy hands.
¹¹They shall perish, but thou continuest; and they all shall grow old as a garment,
¹²and as a covering thou shalt roll them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. (Heb. 1:6‑12)

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Rev. 1:8,11,17• ⁸I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, that is and that was and that is to come, the Almighty.
¹¹saying, What thou seest write in a book, and send to the seven churches; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
¹⁷And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead: and he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last, (Rev. 1:8,11,17)

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Rev. 2:23• ²³And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth reins and hearts; and I will give you each according to your works. (Rev. 2:23)

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Rev. 21:6• ⁶And he said to me, They are done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To him that is athirst I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Rev. 21:6)

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Rev. 22:13‑16• ¹³I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
¹⁴Blessed are those that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city.
¹⁵Without are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie.
¹⁶I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright [and] the morning star. (Rev. 22:13‑16)

smite.

Isa. 53:4‑10• ⁴Surely he [it is] hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
⁵But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
⁶All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
⁷He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth.
⁸He was taken from detention and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
⁹And they made his grave with the wicked, but [he was] with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence, neither [was there] guile in his mouth.
¹⁰Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see a seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. (Isa. 53:4‑10)

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Dan. 9:24‑26• ²⁴seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
²⁵Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
²⁶After the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof will be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (Dan. 9:24‑26)

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John 1:29• ²⁹On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)

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John 3:14‑17• ¹⁴And even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up;
¹⁵that every one that believeth on him should [not perish, but] have life eternal.
¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that every one that believeth on him should not perish but have life eternal.
¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world that he should judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. (John 3:14‑17)

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Acts 2:23• ²³(him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by hand of lawless [men] did crucify and slay; (Acts 2:23)

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Acts 4:26‑28• ²⁶The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Anointed.
²⁷For of a truth in this city against thy holy servant Jesus whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with Gentiles and peoples of Israel were gathered,
²⁸to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel foreordained to come to pass. (Acts 4:26‑28)

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Rom. 3:24‑26• ²⁴being justified gratuitously by his grace through the redemption that [is] in Christ Jesus,
²⁵whom God set forth as a propitiatory through faith in his blood, for a declaration of his righteousness on account of the praeter-mission of the sins that had been before, in the forbearance of God,
²⁶with a view to the declaration of his righteousness in the present time, in order to his being just and justifying him that [is] of faith in Jesus. (Rom. 3:24‑26)

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Rom. 4:25• ²⁵who was given up on account of our offences and was raised on account of our justification. (Rom. 4:25)

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Rom. 5:6‑10• ⁶For Christ, while we were yet weak, died in due time for ungodly [men].
⁷For hardly in behalf of a righteous [man] will one die: for in behalf of the good [man] perhaps one even dareth to die;
⁸but God commendeth his own love towards us, because, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
⁹Much more then, having been now justified by his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.
¹⁰For if while enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. (Rom. 5:6‑10)

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Rom. 8:32• ³²He at least that spared not his own Son but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely grant us all things? (Rom. 8:32)

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2 Cor. 5:21• ²¹him that knew not sin he made sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him. (2 Cor. 5:21)

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Gal. 3:13• ¹³Christ bought us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, “Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree,”) (Gal. 3:13)

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Col. 1:19‑20• ¹⁹for in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell;
²⁰and by him to reconcile the universe unto him, having made peace by the blood of his cross(by him, whether the things on the earth or those in the heavens. (Col. 1:19‑20)

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Heb. 10:5‑10• ⁵Wherefore entering into the world he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not, but a body thou preparedst for me:
⁶in whole burnt-offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no pleasure.
⁷Then I said, Lo, I am come (in the book-roll it is written of me) to do thy will, O God.
⁸Above saying, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not nor hadst pleasure in (the which are offered according to the law),
⁹then he hath said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first that he may establish the second;
¹⁰by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Heb. 10:5‑10)

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1 Peter 1:18‑20• ¹⁸knowing that not by corruptibles, silver or gold, ye were redeemed, from your vain course ancestrally handed down,
¹⁹but by precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,
²⁰foreknown indeed before [the] world's foundation, but manifested at [the] last of the times for your sake, (1 Peter 1:18‑20)

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1 Peter 2:24‑25• ²⁴who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
²⁵For ye were going astray as sheep, but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. (1 Peter 2:24‑25)

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1 Peter 3:18• ¹⁸Because even Christ once suffered for sins, just for unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit, (1 Peter 3:18)

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1 John 2:2• ²and he is [the] propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the whole world. (1 John 2:2)

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1 John 4:9‑10• ⁹Herein was manifested the love of God in us, that God hath sent His only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
¹⁰Herein is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us, and sent his Son [as] propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:9‑10)

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Rev. 13:8• ⁸And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, of whom the name is not written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain, from the world's foundation. (Rev. 13:8)

the sheep.

Matt. 26:31,56• ³¹Then saith Jesus to them, All ye shall be offended in me during this night. For it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
⁵⁶But all this is come to pass that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled. (Matt. 26:31,56)

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Mark 14:27,50• ²⁷And Jesus says to them, All ye shall be offended; for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad.
⁵⁰And all forsook him and fled. (Mark 14:27,50)

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John 16:32• ³²Behold, an hour cometh, and is come, that ye should be scattered, each unto his own, and leave me alone; and I am not alone, because the Father is with me. (John 16:32)

I will turn.

Zech. 11:7,11• ⁷And 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.
¹¹And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock that gave heed to me knew that it was the word of Jehovah. (Zech. 11:7,11)

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Matt. 10:42• ⁴²And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. (Matt. 10:42)

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Matt. 18:10‑11,14• ¹⁰See that ye do not despise one of these little ones; for I say unto you that their angels in [the] heavens continually behold the face of my Father who is in [the] heavens.
¹¹For the Son of man has come to save that which was lost.
¹⁴So it is not the will of your Father who is in [the] heavens that one of these little ones should perish. (Matt. 18:10‑11,14)

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Luke 12:32• ³²Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32)

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Luke 17:2• ²It would be more profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones. (Luke 17:2)

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John 18:8‑9• ⁸Jesus answered, I told you that I am [he]: if then ye seek me, leave these to go away;
⁹that the word might be fulfilled which he said, Of those whom thou hast given me, I have lost not one of them. (John 18:8‑9)

• (Matt. 26:30-31). This makes it plain that the death of Christ in His character as the Shepherd is signified, and thus supplies the key to the interpretation of the passage. The address is to the sword, the sword being a figure of the judicial stroke that fell upon Christ in His death (compare Jer. 47:6); and the command to smite reveals that while the Jews by wicked hands took and crucified their Messiah, He was yet delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Wounded in the house of His friends was man’s work and man’s wickedness, smitten by the sword of judgment, though man was the instrument, brings in rather God’s action. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

• He laid down His life for the sheep. He was smitten of Jehovah’s sword in the language of our Scripture. If, however, the term shepherd points to His official place as the King, “the man that is My fellow” reveals to us His divinity; for of no other than He, who was one with the Father (John 10), who subsisted in the form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God (Phil. 2), and who, as the Word was with God and was God (John 1), could such language be employed. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

• A twofold immediate effect here follows. First, the sheep are scattered. This was fulfilled literally on the night of His apprehension, when all His disciples, those who had acknowledged Him as the Shepherd of Israel, forsook Him and fled; and in another way, we cannot doubt, it has been accomplished in the scattering of the Jews over the face of the whole earth. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

• God would cover with His hand the “little ones” who had recognized their Messiah, the remnant. (“Zechariah 13” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, even against the manc that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

JND Translation Notes

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Adam, ver. 5; Geber, ver. 7. see Job 3.3.

W. Kelly Translation

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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.