Discovery BoxZechariah 2:9 
Context2:9 “I am about to punish them 1 in such a way,” he says, “that they will be looted by their own slaves.” Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me.
Zechariah 5:6
Context5:6 I asked, “What is it?” And he replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain 2 that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said, “This is their ‘eye’ 3 throughout all the earth.”
Zechariah 5:9
Context5:9 Then I looked again and saw two women 4 going forth with the wind in their wings (they had wings like those of a stork) and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky.
Zechariah 9:7
Context9:7 I will take away their abominable religious practices; 5 then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, 6 like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.
Zechariah 9:16
Context9:16 On that day the Lord their God will deliver them as the flock of his people, for they are the precious stones of a crown sparkling over his land.
Zechariah 10:7
Context10:7 The Ephraimites will be like warriors and will rejoice as if they had drunk wine. Their children will see it and rejoice; they will celebrate in the things of the Lord.
Zechariah 10:10
Context10:10 I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. 7 I will bring them to the lands of Gilead and Lebanon, for there will not be enough room for them in their own land.
Zechariah 11:5
Context11:5 Those who buy them 8 slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich.’ Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.
Zechariah 12:5
Context12:5 Then the leaders of Judah will say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a means of strength to us through their God, the Lord who rules over all.’
1 tn Heb “I will wave my hand over them” (so NASB); NIV, NRSV “raise my hand against them.”
2 tn Heb “[This is] the ephah.” An ephah was a liquid or solid measure of about a bushel (five gallons or just under twenty liters). By metonymy it refers here to a measuring container (probably a basket) of that quantity.
3 tc The LXX and Syriac read עֲוֹנָם (’avonam, “their iniquity,” so NRSV; NIV similar) for the MT עֵינָם (’enam, “their eye”), a reading that is consistent with the identification of the woman in v. 8 as wickedness, but one that is unnecessary. In 4:10 the “eye” represented divine omniscience and power; here it represents the demonic counterfeit.
4 sn Here two women appear as the agents of the
5 tn Heb “and I will take away their blood from their mouth and their abominations from between their teeth.” These expressions refer to some type of abominable religious practices, perhaps eating meat with the blood still in it (less likely NCV “drinking blood”) or eating unclean or forbidden foods.
6 tn Heb “and they will be a remnant for our God”; cf. NIV “will belong to our God”; NLT “will worship our God.”
7 sn I will bring them back from Egypt…from Assyria. The gathering of God’s people to their land in eschatological times will be like a reenactment of the exodus, but this time they will come from all over the world (cf. Isa 40:3-5; 43:1-7, 14-21; 48:20-22; 51:9-11).
8 sn The expression those who buy them appears to be a reference to the foreign nations to whom Israel’s own kings “sold” their subjects. Far from being good shepherds, then, they were evil and profiteering. The whole section (vv. 4-14) refers to the past when the
