Zechariah 11:14
And I cut apart my second staff, Bands, || To break the unity between Judah and Israel.
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In Context
15And YHWH says to me, “Again take to yourself the instrument of a foolish shepherd.
Cross References
Isaiah 11:13And has turned aside the envy of Ephraim, || And the adversaries of Judah are cut off, || Ephraim does not envy Judah, || And Judah does not distress Ephraim.
Ezekiel 37:22And I have made them become one nation in the land, on mountains of Israel, || And one king is to them all for king, || And they are no longer as two nations, || Nor are they divided anymore into two kingdoms again.
Zechariah 11:9And I say, “I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbor.”
Mark 3:24And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;
Galatians 5:15and if you bite and devour one another, see that you may not be consumed by one another.
James 3:16for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;
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 →