Sunday School Lesson
Sunday Morning Bible Class February 8, 2026
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Theme:
Minor Prophets
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Zechiariah Te Shepherds
Zechiariah 11:4-17
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Introduction
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Feed The Flock
4) Thus says the Lord my God, "Feed the flock for slaughter, 5)"whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt; those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich; and their shepherds do not pity them. 6) "For I will no l will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land," says the Lord. "But indeed I willgive everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand." 7) So I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bonds; and I fed the flock.
Commentary
Zechiariah 11:4-7
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Shepherds Dismissed
8) I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 9) Then I said, "I will not feed you. Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each others flesh." 10) And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the people. 11) So it was broken on that day. Thus the poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.
Commentary
Zechiariah 11:8-11
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Wages Thrown Out
12) Then I said to them,"If it is agreeable to you, give me my wges; and if not, refrain." So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of siver. 13) And the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter"--that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter. 14) Then I cut into my other staff, Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.15) And the Lord said to me, "Next, take for yourself the implements of a foolish shepherd. 16) "For indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the landwho will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in pieces. 17) "Woe to the orthless shepherd, who leaves the flodk! A sword shall be against his arm and against his right eye; His arm shall completely wither, And his right eye shall be totally blinded."
Commentary
Zechiariah 11:12-17
II Timothy 2:15: "Be dillgent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
