Guiding Questions: Zechariah 6

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. In the vision of the “chariots” is there any comparison with the vision of Ezekiel and “the chariot”?
  2. According to the reply to the prophet’s inquiry (Zechariah 6:5) what do these chariots represent and from whence do they emanate?
  3. In the vision do these “chariots” have a particular function and a particular destination?
  4. What turn does the prophecy or text take in Zechariah 6:9-10 and does this have any relationship to the vision?
  5. Who is to be designated as the Kohen Gadol (and is there any reference to any parallel development on the political level)?
  6. Who or what is “Tzemah” (usually rendered in English translation as “a shoot growing from a plant or a tree”)?
  7. From Zechariah 6:12 would one conclude that “God’s house” is already built?
  8. Would Zechariah 6:13 imply that there will be two leaders — the one the Kohen and the other in a different category — and that there would be a happy coalescence of views and authority where they were concerned?
  9. In Zechariah 6:14 what are the atarot and why are they to be assigned to the individuals mentioned — and have these individuals been mentioned earlier (see Zechariah 6:10)?
  10. Is the last refrain in Zechariah 6:15 a truncated introduction to that which might have followed or is it a conclusion indicating that what has been predicted in this chapter would come about — if?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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