Take all these particulars together, and the prophecy is neither fulfilled in the past nor possible to be fulfilled in the future.
The prophecy which we know as Zechariah ix.-xi.

is believed to be really from a prophet of uncertain name, contemporaneous with Isaiah.
It was written while Ephraim was still a people, i.e.before the capture of Samaria by Shalmanezer; and xi.

1-3 appears to howl over the recent devastations of Tiglathpilezer.

The prophecy is throughout full of the politics of that day.

No part of it has the most remote or imaginable[4] similarity to the historical life of Jesus, except that he once rode into Jerusalem on an ass; a deed which cannot have been peculiar to him, and which Jesus moreover appears to have planned with the express[5] purpose of assimilating himself to the lowly king here described.