Zechariah 11:10

And I took my staff, which was called Handsome, and I tore it apart, so as to invalidate my pact, which I had struck with all of the people.

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In The King James Version

And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.

In Context

9And I said: I will not pasture you. Whatever dies, let it die. And whatever is cut down, let it be cut down. And let the rest of them devour, each one the flesh of his neighbor.

11And it became invalid in that day. And so they understood, just like the poor of the flock who stay close to me, that this is the word of the Lord.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:34According to the number of the forty days, during which you examined the land, one year shall be charged for each day. And so, for forty years you shall take back your iniquities, and you shall know my retribution.

Psalms 50:2when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.

Jeremiah 31:31Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will form a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

Ezekiel 16:59For thus says the Lord God: “I will act toward you, just as you have despised the oath, so that you would make void the covenant.

Daniel 9:26And after sixty-two weeks of years, the Christ leader will be slain. And the people who have denied him will not be his. And the people, when their leader arrives, will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will be devastation, and, after the end of the war, the desolation will be set up.

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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