translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ZEC

label: NET study note

text: Shepherd is a common OT metaphor for the king (see esp. Jer 2:8; 3:15; 10:21; 23:1-2; 50:6 ; ).


text: On the NT use of the image of the cornerstone , see Luke 20:17 ; Eph 2:20 ; 1 Pet 2:6 .


text: The metaphor of the wall peg (Heb. יָתֵד , yated ), together with the others in this list, describes the remarkable change that will take place at the inauguration of God’s eschatological kingdom. Israel, formerly sheep-like, will be turned into a mighty warhorse. The peg refers to a wall hook (although frequently translated “tent peg,” but cf. ASV “nail”; TWOT 1:419) from which tools and weapons were suspended, but figuratively also to the promise of God upon which all of Israel’s hopes were hung (cf. Isa 22:15-25 ; Ezra 9:8 ).


text: I will bring them back from Egypt…from Assyria . The gathering of God’s people to their land in eschatological times will be like a reenactment of the exodus, but this time they will come from all over the world (cf. Isa 40:3-5; 43:1-7, 14-21; 48:20-22; 51:9-11 ).