26:11 “‘I will put my tabernacle 1 in your midst and I will not abhor you. 2
78:59 God heard and was angry;
he completely rejected Israel.
106:40 So the Lord was angry with his people 3
and despised the people who belong to him. 4
1 tn LXX codexes Vaticanus and Alexandrinus have “my covenant” rather than “my tabernacle.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV “my dwelling.”
2 tn Heb “and my soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] will not abhor you.”
3 tn Heb “the anger of the
4 tn Heb “his inheritance.”
5 sn Zechariah is only dramatizing what God had done historically (see the note on the word “cedars” in 11:1). The “one month” probably means just any short period of time in which three kings ruled in succession. Likely candidates are Elah, Zimri, Tibni (1 Kgs 16:8-20); Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem (2 Kgs 15:8-16); or Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah (2 Kgs 24:1–25:7).