Discovery BoxZechariah 1:4 
Context1:4 “Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, ‘The Lord who rules over all says, “Turn now from your evil wickedness,”’ but they would by no means obey me,” says the Lord.
Zechariah 1:16
Context1:16 “‘Therefore,’ says the Lord, ‘I have become compassionate 1 toward Jerusalem 2 and will rebuild my temple 3 in it,’ says the Lord who rules over all. ‘Once more a surveyor’s measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.’
Zechariah 7:7
Context7:7 Should you not have obeyed the words that the Lord cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem 4 was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah 5 were also populated?
Zechariah 11:12
Context11:12 Then I 6 said to them, “If it seems good to you, pay me my wages, but if not, forget it.” So they weighed out my payment – thirty pieces of silver. 7
Zechariah 12:1
Context12:1 The revelation of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: The Lord – he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person 8 – says,
Zechariah 14:8
Context14:8 Moreover, on that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, 9 half of them to the eastern sea 10 and half of them to the western sea; 11 it will happen both in summer and in winter.
1 tn Heb “I have turned.” This suggests that the
2 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
3 tn Heb “house.”
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 sn The Shephelah is the geographical region between the Mediterranean coastal plain and the Judean hill country. The Hebrew term can be translated “lowlands” (cf. ASV), “foothills” (NAB, NASB, NLT), or “steppes.”
6 sn The speaker (Zechariah) represents the
7 sn If taken at face value, thirty pieces (shekels) of silver was worth about two and a half years’ wages for a common laborer. The Code of Hammurabi prescribes a monthly wage for a laborer of one shekel. If this were the case in Israel, 30 shekels would be the wages for 2 1/2 years (R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, pp. 76, 204-5). For other examples of “thirty shekels” as a conventional payment, see K. Luke, “The Thirty Pieces of Silver (Zech. 11:12f.), Ind TS 19 (1982): 26-30. Luke, on the basis of Sumerian analogues, suggests that “thirty” came to be a term meaning anything of little or no value (p. 30). In this he follows Erica Reiner, “Thirty Pieces of Silver,” in Essays in Memory of E. A. Speiser, AOS 53, ed. William W. Hallo (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1968), 186-90. Though the 30 shekels elsewhere in the OT may well be taken literally, the context of Zech. 11:12 may indeed support Reiner and Luke in seeing it as a pittance here, not worth considering (cf. Exod 21:32; Lev 27:4; Matt 26:15).
8 tn Heb “who forms the spirit of man within him” (so NIV).
9 sn Living waters will flow out from Jerusalem. Ezekiel sees this same phenomenon in conjunction with the inauguration of the messianic age (Ezek 47; cf. Rev 22:1-5; also John 7:38).
10 sn The eastern sea is a reference to the Dead Sea (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
11 sn The western sea is a reference to the Mediterranean Sea (cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
