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3. The Structure of Individual Sections of Zechariah 145
verb, so perhaps the best solution is to repoint rnoij in v. 14, 1 and
possibly also in v. 11.
There are other awkward features in this passage. The verb Kin
occurs three times in v. 10 in such a way as to throw the verse out of
balance:
10 Taking 2 from the exiles (nVon r*w)
from (a) Heldai and
from (ntw) Tobiah and
from (n«n) Jedaiah
(and you shall come, you yourself, on that day
and you shall come [to] house of Josiah ben Zephaniah)
who have come from Babylon (or where they have come. ..)
11 And you shall take. ..
Most commentators smooth this out, but the ancient versions confirm
a similarly rough text. 3 Moreover, it is intelligible, and should be
kept. The verb 'take' serves to keep this section together as one element;
the verse stresses the ideas of 'taking' and 'coming' in connection with
the exiles.
The passage continues with the completion of the command. It is at
last specified what is to be taken: gold and silver, to be made into
crowns and put on the head of 'Joshua ben Jehozadak, the high priest'.
We have not yet reached a point that could be called a satisfactory end
1. This is the Meyers' solution:'. .. supported by the LXX and Peshitta; an old
Phoenician reading may underlie the text'. They complicate matters by translating in
v. 11: '. . .make crowns. You will place [one] on the head. ..' and in v. 14: 'The
[other] crown. ..' (Haggai, Zechariah, p. 336). This seems less satisfactory.
Rudolph takes m to be a singular ending (in both verses) as in Job 31.36, 'I would
bind it on me as a crown', and quotes several other authorities (Haggai, p. 128).
Petersen (Haggai and Zechariah, pp. 272-75) regards the change to the singular in
ancient texts as an attempt to avoid the difficulty and reads MT as 'crowns' and as the
more difficult reading. He points out that this is in accord with 'the diarchic situation
envisioned in 4.1-5, 10b-14'.
2. This seems best understood as an imperative. The infinitive absolute followed
by perfect is well attested in this sense, e.g. Deut. 1.16; 2 Sam. 24.12; cf. GKC 113
aa-gg (Petitjean, Les oracles, pp. 272-73). Lipiriski regarded it as an abnormal
imperative, ('Recherches sur le livre de Zacharie', VT 20 [1970], pp. 33-34), but
this seems unnecessary.
3. Even though LXX regards the proper names as appellatives: rcapa TOW
dpxovTCov Kai rcapa TWV %pr\a{nu>v croTriq *ai napa TCOV eneyvcoKOicov
cni>Tf|v. See Petitjean, Les oracles, pp. 271, 274-78, 296.