Saturday, May 30, 2020

Teaching Notes Book of Zechariah - Chapters 9 and 10

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Teaching Notes Book of 
Zechariah - Chapters 9 and 10


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Hugh C. Wood, Atlanta, Georgia


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Zechariah 9

New International Version
Judgment on Israel’s Enemies

9 A prophecy:

The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrak
    and will come to rest on Damascus—
for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel
    are on the Lord—[a]
2 and on Hamath too, which borders on it,
    and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skillful.
3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold;
    she has heaped up silver like dust,
    and gold like the dirt of the streets.
4 But the Lord will take away her possessions
    and destroy her power on the sea,
    and she will be consumed by fire.
5 Ashkelon will see it and fear;
    Gaza will writhe in agony,
    and Ekron too, for her hope will wither.
Gaza will lose her king
    and Ashkelon will be deserted.
6 A mongrel people will occupy Ashdod,
    and I will put an end to the pride of the Philistines.
7 I will take the blood from their mouths,
    the forbidden food from between their teeth.
Those who are left will belong to our God
    and become a clan in Judah,
    and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.
8 But I will encamp at my temple
    to guard it against marauding forces.
Never again will an oppressor overrun my people,
    for now I am keeping watch.




The Coming of Zion’s King
9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!
    Shout, Daughter Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you,
    righteous and victorious,
lowly and riding on a donkey,
    on a colt, the foal of a donkey.





10 I will take away the chariots from Ephraim
    and the warhorses from Jerusalem,
    and the battle bow will be broken.
He will proclaim peace to the nations.
    His rule will extend from sea to sea
    and from the River[b] to the ends of the earth.
11 As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
    I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.




12 Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope;
    even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.
13 I will bend Judah as I bend my bow
    and fill it with Ephraim.
I will rouse your sons, Zion,
    against your sons, Greece,
    and make you like a warrior’s sword.

The Lord Will Appear
14 Then the Lord will appear over them;
    his arrow will flash like lightning.
The Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet;
    he will march in the storms of the south,
15     and the Lord Almighty will shield them.
They will destroy
    and overcome with slingstones.
They will drink and roar as with wine;
    they will be full like a bowl
    used for sprinkling[c] the corners of the altar.
16 The Lord their God will save his people on that day
    as a shepherd saves his flock.
They will sparkle in his land
    like jewels in a crown.
17 How attractive and beautiful they will be!
    Grain will make the young men thrive,
    and new wine the young women.

Footnotes
Zechariah 9:1 Or Damascus. / For the eye of the Lord is on all people, / as well as on the tribes of Israel,
Zechariah 9:10 That is, the Euphrates
Zechariah 9:15 Or bowl, / like



Zechariah 10

New International Version

The Lord Will Care for Judah

10 Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime;
    it is the Lord who sends the thunderstorms.




He gives showers of rain to all people,
    and plants of the field to everyone.




2 The idols speak deceitfully,
    diviners see visions that lie;
they tell dreams that are false,
    they give comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wander like sheep
    oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

3 “My anger burns against the shepherds,
    and I will punish the leaders;
for the Lord Almighty will care
    for his flock, the people of Judah,
    and make them like a proud horse in battle.
4 From Judah will come the cornerstone,
    from him the tent peg,
from him the battle bow,
    from him every ruler.
5 Together they[a] will be like warriors in battle
    trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets.
They will fight because the Lord is with them,
    and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.

6 “I will strengthen Judah
    and save the tribes of Joseph.
I will restore them
    because I have compassion on them.
They will be as though
    I had not rejected them,
for I am the Lord their God
    and I will answer them.
7 The Ephraimites will become like warriors,
    and their hearts will be glad as with wine.
Their children will see it and be joyful;
    their hearts will rejoice in the Lord.
8 I will signal for them
    and gather them in.
Surely I will redeem them;
    they will be as numerous as before.
9 Though I scatter them among the peoples,
    yet in distant lands they will remember me.
They and their children will survive,
    and they will return.




10 I will bring them back from Egypt
    and gather them from Assyria.
I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon,
    and there will not be room enough for them.
11 They will pass through the sea of trouble;
    the surging sea will be subdued
    and all the depths of the Nile will dry up.
Assyria’s pride will be brought down
    and Egypt’s scepter will pass away.
12 I will strengthen them in the Lord
    and in his name they will live securely,”
declares the Lord.

Footnotes
Zechariah 10:5 Or ruler, all of them together. / 5 They


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Zechariah 4Q80 Dead Sea Scrolls  50BCE

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Manuscripts of the 12 Manuscripts


https://www.bible.ca/manuscripts/bible-manuscripts-Septuagint-twelve-Greek-Minor-prophets-scroll-Nahal-Hever-Bar-Kochba-Cave-of-Horrors-letters-Dodekapropheton-Greek-8HevXIIgr-50BC.htm



The Greek Septuagint Twelve Minor Prophets scroll (2100 years old)



Introduction:

1.       The Greek minor prophets scroll was discovered in 1952 AD is one of the most important archeological finds ever.

a.         Dodekapropheton is the Greek name for the 12 prophets as a collection.

b.        It is a scroll of the entire 12 minor prophets even though much of the text is destroyed over time.

c.         It shows the Bible we hold today is the same as it was before the time of Christ.

d.        It proves the entire Old Testament was translated by Jews into Greek before the time of Christ.

2.       The Greek minor prophets scroll dates to about 50 BC:

a.         “Dating Conclusion: Both hands give the impression of belonging to the late Ptolemaic or early Roman period. Some features favour an earlier rather than a later date; no feature recommends a later rather than an earlier date.” (Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever, Emanuel Tov, p25, 1990 AD)

b.        Late Ptolemaic is 100-30 BC and Early Roman begins at 30 BC.

c.         So Emanuel Tov, a Jewish Scholar living in Israel dates the Greek scroll to before the Birth of Christ and favours the “early date” ie. Before the Roman Era.

3.       There are two caves where scrolls were found: Cave 8 “Cave of Horrors” and Cave 5-6 “Cave of Letters”

4.       The Greek minor prophets scroll was discovered at cave 8 in the Nahal Hever which is located about 5 km south of En Gedi

a.         Nahal (river) Hever (Hebron = friend) means “river of the friend”. The town of Hebron is due west.

b.        During the Bar Kochba rebellion of 135 AD, also known as the “Second Jewish War with Rome”, the rebel Zealot had moved from Qumran, Gamla and Kh. El Maqatir to Masada and the two caves high in the hills of the Nahal Hever.

c.         Cave 8 is known as the “Cave of Horrors” (Ma'arat Ha'Eimim) because 40 skeletons were found here, the remains of those seeking refuge during the Bar Kokhba Revolt. Archaeologists found three ostraca, which had been placed on the skeletons, inscribed with the names of the deceased.

d.        The Romans killed the rebel Jews by smoke inhalation by setting fires at the entrance.

e.        In 1952 AD skeletons of Men, women and children were excavated and reburied in the inner cave area.

f.          The scroll of the 12 prophets represented a high value possession to these Jews in 135 AD, being 200 years old at the time.

g.         Fragments of Jewish prayers were found in Aramaic.

5.       In the “Cave of Letters” (cave 5-6) the following was found letters that date from 94-132 AD and included three collections:

a.         A leather waterskin containing 15 letters (in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek), most of which were sent by Shim'on Bar Kohkba (Shim'on b. Kosiba), the leader of the Bar Kohkba revolt.

b.        A wrapped package stored inside a leather purse, containing 35 personal financial records, belonging to a woman named Babatha.

c.         Five contracts belonging to Eleazar ben Shmuel, a farmer from Ein Gedi.

d.        Four languages were used on the manuscripts: Greek, Hebrew, Nabatean, Aramaic

e.        Of special note is that all the scripture manuscripts were in Aramaic also known as “Square Hebrew”. This is a different language and Mosaic Hebrew and modern Hebrew. Remember, in the first century Hebrew was almost extinct being used only by the Jerusalem temple elites.

f.          Three other special documents were found in the Cave of Letters (cave 5-6):

                                                               i.      Marriage Contract (5/6Hev37) A woman named Babata who was married and divorced/widowed twice had a marriage contract in her possession that was found in cave 5-6. It was written by husband which said, "If I [Babata's husband] die before you, you will live in my house and receive maintenance from it and from my possessions.". (5/6Hev37, Babata marriage contract, 135 AD)

                                                             ii.      Sale Contract (5/6Hev47)

                                                           iii.      Redemption of a Writ of Seizure (5/6Hev36)



I. The Greek 12 minor prophets scroll of the Septuagint

1.      The Greek scripture scroll (cave 8) is the longest scroll ever found in Israel at 32 feet long and are currently housed in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem.

a.       Two different men wrote the entire scroll. We know this by graphology of textual styles that point to two different “hands” through handwriting analysis.

b.      Printed on vellum (animal skin) with carbon ink.

c.       Many skins were joined to create a scroll 10 meters long and 35 cm high.

2.      The document is in Greek expect for Mosaic Hebrew (Paleo-Hebrew) where they wrote the name of God YHWH in the extinct Hebrew alphabet.

a.       Other documents found at the same time would use four stars **** as an early “nomina sacra” substitution.

b.      This substitution of Mosaic Hebrew for Greek in the name of God is probably the very beginning point of “nomina sacra”.

c.       Nomina sacra developed into the Christian era and became almost ridiculous because they would create substitutional abbreviations for other “sacred” things including: God, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Saviour, Cross, Christ etc.

d.      While Christians eventually abandoned the practice of nomina sacra altogether, the Jews continue the practice by writing the word God in English as G-D where a dash is substituted for the letter O.

e.      Of course the ultimate substitution was provided by the Holy Spirit himself in the 27 books of the New Testament that consistently substitute KURIOS (Greek for “Lord”) for YHWH in all Old Testament quotations in the New Testament.

f.        Jehovah’s Witnesses, in their standard delusional ignorant bliss, will point to YHWH written in Mosaic Hebrew as proof that their New World Translation (NWT) is superior to all other Bibles because they “RESTORED” the name of God with Jehovah. Since a Jw is forbidden to read non-Watchtower religious materials on the internet, their knowledge is no greater than what the Watchtower tells them. To illustrate their unscholarly delusions, almost no JW even knows that the letter “J” does not exist in Greek, Hebrew. Worse still, not even English, which was derived directly from Hebrew, had a letter “J” before about 1650 AD. The 1611 AD KJV for example, does not have contain a single “J”. They spelled Jesus’ name as IESUS instead. So the NWT very modern substitution of JEHOVAH for the original autograph KURIOS in the Greek New Testament is beyond bizarre. There are no known Hebrew copies of Matthew, only rumours. And if these rumors were true, it was probably a translation from the original Greek Matthew into Hebrew. Of course 100% of Greek new testament manuscripts use KURIOS (LORD) and NEVER use YHWH. So it was the Holy Spirit “who willed” the substitution of Kurios for YHWH throughout the New Testament. Of course none of the truthful information ever phases a JW because they blindly follow the Watchtower Magazine when it contradicts the Bible. Jesus said, “leave them alone, they are blind guides”.

3.      The 12 minor prophets are all accounted for but extant fragments exist only for Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and Zechariah. Here are the actual sections of text that have survived and can be read today. The rest is lost due to damage and decay over 2100 years.

a.       Jonah 1:14-2:7; 3:2-5; 3:7-4:2; 4:5.

b.      Mic 1:1-8; 2:7-8; 3:5-6; 4:3-5; 4:6-10; 5:1(2)-6(7).

c.       Nah 1:13-14; 2:5-10; 2:13-14; 3:3; 3:6-17.

d.      Hab 1:5-11; 1:14-2:8; 2:13-20; 3:8-15.

e.      Zeph 1:1-6; 1:13-18; 2:9-10; 3:6-7.

f.        Zech 1:1-4; 1:12-15; 2:2-4(1:19-21); 2:6-12(2-8); 2:16(12)-3:2; 3:4-7; 8:19-21; 8:23-9:5.

4.      The Greek scroll of the 12 minor prophets has clear signs of correction of the Greek text to fit it to the Hebrew text then current.

a.       It is almost identical to our modern text in our bibles today but small differences do exist.

b.      The does not necessarily mean the scroll was translated from an older text that was corrected with a different new text. Most of the differences can be explained by the original translators trying to convey the meaning from Hebrew into Greek. Just like our modern English Bibles differ widely in specific words used and word order, in the end they all say basically the identical thing.

c.       What is most interesting, is that the text sometimes agrees with the both the LXX and Masoretic, while in other cases differs from them both, while in other cases agrees with the LXX over the Masoretic and vice versa.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_106IfO6Kc0

Bible Project

Overview: Zechariah

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Zechariah is specific about dating his writing (520–518 BC).


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Zechariah


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Dead Sea Scrolls Bible Translations


http://dssenglishbible.com/scroll4Q80.htm


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Commentary on Zechariah 9


https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/kdo/zechariah-9.html

Commentary on Zechariah 10


https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/kdo/zechariah-10.html


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edcqUu_BtN0

How to Read the Bible: The Prophets

Bible Project

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Hugh C. Wood, Atlanta, Georgia


New International Version (NIV)


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Keil, Carl Friedrich & Delitzsch, Franz. "Commentary on Zechariah 7:8". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/kdo/zechariah-3.html. 1854-1889.


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