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292 Structure and the Book of Zechariah
The first (6.1-8) is followed immediately by a promise of the completion
of the Temple and the institution of a divinely-ordained leadership.
Zech. 9.1-8 also culminates in a promise that Yahweh will again encamp
at his house and offer the protection of the divine presence and leadership
of his people. Both thus have been editorially arranged [emphasis mine]
so that they lead towards a Zion-centred tradition. It is possible, then, that
in this opening oracle, themes of proto-Zechariah's teaching are being
taken up and made the basis for the expression of eschatological hope
(p. ID-
3. Zech. 9.3 and 10.5, mxin CTCD, used as a term of contempt in the
latter, as in Mic. 7.10 (and also Ps. 18.42 = 2 Sam. 22.43) (p. 19).
4. 'Spiritual renewal' for foreigner and home-born alike; cf.
Philistia in 9.6-7, Zech. 3, 5. '. ..breadth of vision and universalist
thought somewhat akin to the circles in which the final form of the
oracles of Zech. 1-8 took shape' (pp. 26-27).
5. Zech. 9.8 mentions 'the house' of Yahweh. The Targum renders
'JT3n as it does 2.14, where 'in my holy house' is also added. The
Targum also adds 'like a wall of fire' based on 2.9 (p. 29).
6. Zech. 9.8, rD^o. He notes Jansma (who thinks that the pointing
of MT preserves two readings: n/»3XQ, and may 'continuate' a third
variant in the 'apparently redundant' 3tfm -aun), 1 and Sa5b0, 2 who
relates n32£a and atztai "Qua, seen respectively as two variants, to:
a. Zech. 1.16-17, in which the 'house' is also central, and
which also contains the word T\i).
b. Zech. 7.14 which has been noted above (p. 30).
7. Zech. 9.8 rounds off vv. 1-7
with the promise that God will protect his people, cleansed and forgiven,
stripped of all false self-reliance and cultic apostasy... from the
Temple... This echoes the themes of the divine return to Jerusalem and
protection of it, the cleansing and renewing of the people, and the making
of the Temple a centre for all, Israelite and foreign alike, to come and worship,
themes, all of which, are prominent in proto-Zechariah (pp. 30-31).
8. '3'ua. Saeb0 noted how much emphasis there is on the 'eye' of
Yahweh in Zechariah 1-8. 3
1. Zechariah 9-14, pp. 69-70.
2. 'Die deuterosacharjanische Frage', pp. 159-61.
3. 'Die deuterosacharjanische Frage', p. 161; also see above, pp. 254-57.