This Deutero-Zechariah may be divided into two sections, ix, xi. and xii.-xiv. Chapter ix. an nounces a judp,n cut upon the neighboring na tions, the advent of the Messianic King, and Yahweh's interference for the salvation of his people. In chap. x. Yahweh promises to re move the unfaithful leaders of Israel, and him self to take action for the restoration of all Israel. Chap. xi. describes symbolically Yahweh's rejection of the spiritual leaders and his dis cipline of the people, of whom a remnant is to be saved. Most scholars connect with this section the fragment xiii. 7-9. Chapters xii.
xiii. present an involved and obscure line of events. Judah and Jerusalem are engaged in a dread struggle with the Gentiles, Judah itself being at first arrayed against the capital. Yah weh interferes, and there follows period of penitent mourning with a purging of the idols and the prophets from the land. In chapter xiv. is given an apocalyptic figure of the last great attack upon Jerusalem, which is at first successful, until Yahweh's personal appearance saves his people. This is accompanied and fol lowed by a transformation of the land of Judah.
Finally. all nations are described as going up as worshipers to -Ternsalem, a curse resting on those who refuse.
The last. three chapters are now generally aseribed to a late post-exilic period. Great un certainly prevails as to chapters ix.-xi. Some hold to their pre-exilic origin with considerable reNliting; the prevailing view assigns them to the post-exilic age: and many scholars regard the whole appendix as a work of the Mat-rah:pan period. But the problems contained in ehap ters have by no means been factorily elucidated. The Messianic figures of this section are much employed in the Gospels. Consult the general works mentioned in the article 1\11NOR PROPHETS, and Wright, Zechariah, mid His Propluxics (London, 1579); Cheyne, in the Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. i. 1889) ; Lasalle, Etude sur le Mere de Zacharic (Amster dam, 1891) ; Dcr Prophet Zacharja burg. 1892) ; Rubinkane, The Second Part of the Book of Zacharialt (Basel, 1892) ; and Perowne. "Haggai and Zechariah," in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge, 1893).