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3. The Structure of Individual Sections of Zechariah 227 13 Enemies'disarray 13 disarray and division 14 Booty 14-15 A' Judah/war/spoil/nations 15 Plague against animals Lamarche calls vv. 1-6 a 'series of misfortunes' and vv. 7b-15 a 'series of victories'. 1 It is doubtful whether the division of the mountains should be described in this way. It seems rather to be a terrifying sign of Yahweh's intervention. We must question the use of the common formula '(and it will be) on that day'. The use of this formula to add two separate sections could easily be mistaken for a deliberate structuring of the final passage. The latter could, of course, be true but it needs to be established by independent criteria. Notice needs to be taken of two further facts. 1. 'On that day' does not occur at the beginning of the subsections, vv. 3-5, 7b-8 or 12-15; Lamarche's plan obscures this. 2. In such cases the formula is unlikely to be used for editorial additions, and perhaps more likely to be used in structuring the chapter. Lacocque comments that 'Lamarche gives a table of the structure of 14.1-[1]5 which shows he has not understood the text in question'. 2 He does little, however, to justify his own plan. Lamarche's plan for the remainder of the chapter is as follows: 3 16-19 a Under pain of judgment the remnant of the nations go to Jerusalem to worship: the King Yahweh Sebaoth (2x) 20-21 a' Everything is sacred On that day on horses' bells. . .holy to Yahweh on pots in Jerusalem. . . holy to Yahweh on that day 1. He does not justify this description: he states it and refers to the plan (Zacharie 9-14, p. 98). 2. Amsler et al.,Agee, Zecharie, Malachi, p. 132 n. 2 (where there is a misprint: '14.1-5' should be '14.1-15'. The heading to his own plan reads '14.1- 14', but, since he treats vv. 1-15 together in the body of commentary (see esp. p. 205), I assume that this is also a mistake. 3. Zacharie 9-14, p. 104

228 Structure and the Book ofZechariah Criticisms made previously apply also to this treatment of ch. 14. For instance, the correspondences are formal, based mainly on introductory formulae; some sections have little content in common (e.g. c and c 1 in Lamarche's plan); some points of contact are ignored (e.g. king is found in v. 5 [Uzziah] as well as in v. 9; the only other apparently significant word the sections have in common is 333); the sections ded' encompass some very uncertain text; e cannot be said to be a very satisfying or convincing climax: Yahweh's becoming king is more likely to be at the centre, particularly in view of 14.16-17 which is part of the climax of chs. 9-14, with contacts in 9.1-8 and 9.9-10 especially; formally c looks similar to a 1 ; a and a 1 are not similar with regard to introductory formulae or detail. Before offering my own explanation of the structure of vv. 1-15, I shall deal with vv. 16-19. Lamarche's analysis of this section seems to be more successful, and he summarizes v. 16-19 correctly (Lacocque apparently does not see a particular structure here). He does not, however, deal with all the duplicate words and phrases that abound in this section. It may be set out as follows: 16a And it will be all that remains of all the nations that came against (b«) Jerusalem 16b they will go up year by year to worship the King Yahweh Sebaoth and to keep the feast arms yr of booths 17 And it will be whoever will not go up from all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King Yahweh Sebaoth there will be no rain on them 18 and if a family of Egypt will not go up and not come and not upon them there will be the plague (with) which Yahweh will plague the nations who will not go up to keep the feast of booths 19 this will be the nKon of Egypt and the nKon of all the nations who will not go up to keep the feast of booths There are almost too many inter-relationships and repetitions here. We can say with certainty that:

228 Structure and the Book ofZechariah<br />

Criticisms made previously apply also to this treatment of ch. 14.<br />

For instance, the correspondences are formal, based mainly on introductory<br />

formulae; some sections have little content in common (e.g. c<br />

and c 1 in Lamarche's plan); some points of contact are ignored (e.g.<br />

king is found in v. 5 [Uzziah] as well as in v. 9; the only other<br />

apparently significant word the sections have in common is 333); the<br />

sections ded' encompass some very uncertain text; e cannot be said to<br />

be a very satisfying or convincing climax: Yahweh's becoming king is<br />

more likely to be at the centre, particularly in view of 14.16-17 which<br />

is part of the climax of chs. 9-14, with contacts in 9.1-8 and 9.9-10<br />

especially; formally c looks similar to a 1 ; a and a 1 are not similar with<br />

regard to introductory formulae or detail.<br />

Before offering my own explanation of the structure of vv. 1-15, I<br />

shall deal with vv. 16-19. Lamarche's analysis of this section seems to<br />

be more successful, and he summarizes v. 16-19 correctly (Lacocque<br />

apparently does not see a particular structure here). He does not,<br />

however, deal with all the duplicate words and phrases that abound in<br />

this section. It may be set out as follows:<br />

16a And it will be<br />

all that remains of all the nations<br />

that came against (b«) Jerusalem<br />

16b they will go up year by year<br />

to worship the King Yahweh Sebaoth<br />

and to keep the feast arms yr of booths<br />

17 And it will be<br />

whoever will not go up<br />

from all the families of the earth to Jerusalem<br />

to worship the King Yahweh Sebaoth<br />

there will be no rain on them<br />

18 and if a family of Egypt will not go up and not come<br />

and not upon them<br />

there will be the plague (with) which Yahweh<br />

will plague the nations<br />

who will not go up to keep the feast of booths<br />

19 this will be the nKon of Egypt<br />

and the nKon of all the nations<br />

who will not go up to keep the feast of booths<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are almost too many inter-relationships and repetitions here.<br />

We can say with certainty that:

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