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Chapter 4
CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SECTIONS OFZECHARIAH 1-14
In this chapter I shall try and determine whether there are clear links
between individual sections of Zechariah. I shall therefore consider
each separate section in relation to the whole. It will be necessary to
restrict the words picked out to quite distinctive words or whole
phrases. It is obvious that a word which would mark out a structure in
one connected section, would not necessarily be effective over a
longer distance, especially when material of a different kind intervenes
between two occurrences.
The plan adopted is to plot the words and phrases that might
possibly be significant (i.e. that we cannot rule out prima facie) in
indicating intended connections between individual sections of
Zechariah. I shall divide the first part of this chapter as follows:
Connections between: Zechariah 1, 2-8, and 9-14
Zechariah 2, 3-8, and 9-14
Zechariah 3, 4-8, and 9-14
Zechariah 4, 5-8, and 9-14
Zechariah 5, 6-8, and 9-14
Zechariah 6, 7-8, and 9-14
Zechariah 7-8, and 9-14
Chapters 2 and 5 are short enough to consider together in one table
but I shall give attention to the separate units as previously. There is a
danger to guard against, in that a particular later chapter may have connections
with several earlier ones, but none of them seem significant
in themselves. As long as we are aware of this, it does not seem
necessary to repeat connections with earlier chapters. However, when
we come to chs. 9-14 I shall plot words occurring in chs. 1-8.' The
1. Even this scheme may seem over-pedantic. I have decided against further
omissions since it is easier to ignore an unnecessary table than to refer back
repeatedly to earlier section for information that would be useful in one place.