Dear Steve,I understand it to mean that those who were attacking, were attacking
I'm not sure if I'll manage to answer your questions, but Karl has already
addressed them. As he wrote, in a sequence such as "Judah, Israel and
Jerusalem", there is no need to insert "and" between every item. My
additional question would be - to what "Israel" is the author referring?
Presumably, Zechariah lived in Persian-period Judah. There was no "Israel".
He could have been using "Israel" to mean Judah, but the "Judah" is
redundant.
This is what I call an example of "sloppy lexicography", which is not
As far as "yadu", the verb is not the same as the one that means "praise",
"give thanks", or "confess". Like in Jer. 50:14 and Lam. 3:53, it means "to
throw". It seems to be derived from "yad", "hand", literally "to hand"
(although not meaning, as in English, "to give").
Yigal LevinKarl W. Randolph.
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