Zechariah 11:14

Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.

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In The King James Version

Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

In Context

13And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.

15And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.

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Cross References

Isaiah 11:13And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah's hate for Ephraim.

Ezekiel 37:22And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king over them all: and they will no longer be two nations, and will no longer be parted into two kingdoms:

Zechariah 11:9And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

Mark 3:24If there is division in a kingdom, that kingdom will come to destruction;

Galatians 5:15But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

James 3:16For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 11:5-15

Judgments Predicted and Typified. ( b. c. 510.) 4 Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord ; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord : but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not… Read the whole commentary →

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