For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands."
Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
Significance
Azariah's prophetic description of a time when "nation was crushed by nation and city by city" (2 Chr 15:6) echoes the language of intergroup conflict and social collapse found in Zechariah 11:6, where the LORD declares, "I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king." Both texts use imagery of mutual destruction (kathat, "crush") as divine judgment for unfaithfulness. The shared motif of internecine warfare as divine punishment creates a verbal echo linking the pre-Asa period of turmoil to Zechariah's vision of eschatological judgment on the unfaithful shepherd.
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Echo
Connection Method(s)
Analogy — the same pattern of internecine self-destruction as covenant judgment: the pre-Asa anarchy ("nation was crushed by nation, and city by city," כתת) corresponds to Zechariah's sentence that each will fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, God handing the unfaithful over to mutual ruin in both eras
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