Text: Zechariah 11:6
OT Text Referred to: 2 Chronicles 15:6
Subject: Threat of crushing
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Reference Type: Echo
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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 He will "deliver the inhabitants of the land, each into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of 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.