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214 Structure and the Book ofZechariah
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put on ~u;b rrnK in order to deceive
5 And he will say mwo Tapn m« o »D» rru »6 b'
6 And one will say to him 'What are these rroa. .. ?' a'
and he will say, that which 'ron in. .. friends
General Remarks
There are several peculiar features in this passage. 'David' is mentioned
six times here (five times in the expression 'house of David'),
but nowhere else in Zechariah. The distinction between the house of
David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem is found several times. Judah
and Jerusalem are mentioned separately as previously (1.12, Jerusalem
and the cities of Judah [cf. 2.2; 8.15; 2.16] is simply synonymous
parallelism; 2.4, 8.19 and 14.5 mention Judah alone; 8.13 contrasts
Judah and Israel; see also 9.7, 13; 10.3, 6; 11.4; 14.14, 21).
The passage also hints at tension between Judah on the one hand,
and David and Jerusalem on the other (v. 7). 1 Verse 5 shows Judah
thinking of Jerusalem as 'them'. Does v. 2 actually imply that Judah
joins the siege against Jerusalem? 2 Literally it is: 'And it/he will also
be against/upon Judah in the siege against Jerusalem'. The subject
seems to be the 'cup of reeling' since the change from T to 'he'
1. Mason notes the possibility of seeing tension between Judah and Jerusalem in
vv. 4, 6 and 7, but feels this was not the original intention (Haggai, Zechariah and
Malachi, pp. 115-16; in more detail: Zechariah 9-14, pp. 213-19).
2. Those who accept the MT tend to opt for one of two understandings:
a. Judah joins the nations in the siege against Jerusalem, e.g. Baldwin
(Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, p. 189), E. Cashdan (hesitantly, noting tha
the Targum, all Jewish and many modern commentators think that Judah
is forced into this by the nations; Soncino Books of the Bible: Zechariah
[London: Soncino, 1967], pp. 318-19), Jones (Haggai, Zechariah,
Malachi, p. 158).
b. "The siege against Jerusalem will also be against Judah', based on Marti's
suggestion that Tiicm rrn means not 'to take part in' the siege but 'to be in
a state of siege, as in Ezek. 4.3; see Otzen, Studien, pp. 184-85; Amsler
el al., Agee, Zecharie, Malachi, p. 186.
For various emendations see, e.g., Rudolph, Haggai, pp. 217-19; Sjeb0, 'Die
deuterosacharjanische Frage', pp. 88-92; Mason, Zechariah 9-14, pp. 219-20.
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