Zechariah 10:2
For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
Note idols: Heb. teraphims
Note were…: or, answered that, etc
For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
Note teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the idols
- Heb. the teraphims.
- Genesis 31:19; Judges 18:14; Isaiah 44:9; Isaiah 46:5; Jeremiah 10:8; Jeremiah 14:22; Hosea 3:4; Habakkuk 2:18
- the diviners
- Jeremiah 23:25–27; Jeremiah 27:9; Jeremiah 29:8, 21, 22; Lamentations 2:14; Ezekiel 13:6–16, 22, 23; Ezekiel 21:29; Micah 3:6–11
- they comfort
- Job 13:4; Job 21:34; Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 8:11; Jeremiah 14:13; Jeremiah 23:17; Jeremiah 28:4–6, 15; Jeremiah 37:19
- therefore
- Jeremiah 13:17–20; Jeremiah 50:17; Jeremiah 51:23; Micah 2:12
- troubled, because there
- or, answered that there.
- Numbers 27:17; 1 Kings 22:17; Ezekiel 34:5, 8; Matthew 9:36