OLD TESTAMENT

Zechariah 11:13

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The LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter—the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the LORD’s house.

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Verse 13. The statuary. The Hebrew word signifies also a potter, ( Challoner.) and this seems to be the true meaning. Matthew 27:3. The prophet is ordered to bring, thus to indicate what should be done by the traitor. Calmet.—Septuagint “cast them into the crucible to see if it (the metal) be good, as I have been tried by them.” Bible.

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