Zechariah – General
Zechariah 1:1 - According to this verse, Zechariah was Iddo's grandson. But Ezra (5:1, 6:14) says he was the son of Iddo.
Zechariah 2:13 - Quiet everyone! God's trying to sleep! Now you've done it. He's awake.
Zechariah 3:2 - So, God says, "God rebuke thee, O Satan?" Don't you hate it when people refer to themselves in the third person?
Zechariah 8:2 - God gets jealous with great jealousy and fury. But God's not supposed to get furious (See Is.27:4)
Zechariah 8:10 - God "set all men one against his neighbour."
Zechariah 9:4 - God says he will strip and burn the rich and wise land of Hadrach because he prefers Jerusalem.
Zechariah 9:9 - The gospels (especially Mt.21:4-5 and Jn.12:14-15) claim that Jesus fulfils the prophecy of Zech.9:9. But the next few verses (9:10-13) show that the person referred to in this verse is a military king that would rule "from sea to sea". Since Jesus had neither an army nor a kingdom, he could not have fulfilled this prophecy.
Zechariah 9:13 - The Jews never conquered the Greeks.
Zechariah 10:11 - The river of Egypt (identified as the Nile in NIV, NASB, and RSV) shall dry up. This has never occurred.
Zechariah 11:6-7 - God will mercilessly "feed the flock of slaughter" by making every one kill his neighbour.
Zechariah 11:9 - God wants everyone to eat "the flesh of another."
Zechariah 11:12-13 - Matthew 27:9 quote this verse, but incorrectly attribute it to Jeremiah.
Zechariah 11:17 - God wants this shepherd, whom he himself raised, to be hacked up and blinded.
Zechariah 13:3 - A prophet must be killed by his own parents by "thrusting him through when he prophesieth."
Zechariah 14:2 - God will see to it that Jerusalem "shall be taken ... and the women ravished."
Zechariah 14:12 - God will smite the people with plagues that will cause their flesh, eyes, and tongues to rot away.
Zechariah 14:13 - God will make everyone fight and kill his neighbour.
Zechariah 14:15 - God sends his plagues on animals too.
Zechariah 14:16 - In his never-ending quest to satisfy his ego's thirst, God decrees that anyone who survives all these plagues and slaughters must worship God. And after all of that, who wouldn't dare?
Zechariah 14:18 - God will "smite the heathen" with a plague.
Malachi – General
Malachi 1:1 - The book of Malachi is anonymous; Malachi is just a transliteration of the Hebrew words for "my messenger."
Malachi 1:3 - God, for some strange reason, "hated Esau."
Malachi 1:4 - God hates the Edomites, and his hatred will last forever.
Malachi 1:8, 13-14 - God continues to demand cruel animal sacrifices. And not just any animals will do. He is insulted when blind, lame, or sick animals are killed for him.
Malachi 1:12 - The priests rightly object to the biblical God's demand for sacrifices, by saying the "table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible."
Malachi 2:2 - Give glory to God or he will curse you.
Malachi 2:3 - Listen to the pure word of God: "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces."
Malachi 2:17 - God gets tired of our whining.
Malachi 3:1, 4:1, 5 - The gospel of Mark claims that John the Baptist fulfilled the prophecy given in Malachi (3:1, 4:1, 5). But the Malachi prophecy says that God will send Elijah before "the great and dreadful day of the LORD" in which the world will be consumed by fire. Yet John the Baptist flatly denied that he was Elijah (Elias) in John 1:21 and the earth were not destroyed after John's appearance.
