11:12
Zechariah asked for his wages, if it seemed good to them, and was given thirty pieces of silver. This, of course, is the amount Judas was paid for betraying Jesus (Matt 26:15). This was the price of a slave who was accidentally killed (Ex 21:32). There are some who say it reflects an insulting wage in the Near East of the time, but others say it is actually a significant sum.
11:13
The Lord then instructed Zechariah to throw it to the potter. There are various explanations as to why he was instructed to do this. One is simply that there was a pottery nearby, though this explanation seems to have little point to it. Another is that the Hebrew word for potter is very close to the word for treasury, and yet another is that it could actually refer to a metalworker. None of these is particularly enlightening.
11:14
The unity between Judah (the southern kingdom) and Israel (the northern kingdom) was broken after Solomon, and they were not exactly friends. It is difficult therefore to see what this verse is referring to, unless it is looking backwards.
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