Zechariah 11:14

Then I broke my second staff called Union so as to dissolve the brotherhood between Judah and Jerusalem.

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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, Cast it into the treasury – the precious wage that at which I was valued by them! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them into the house of the Lord, into the treasury.

15And the Lord said to me: Take again the implements of a worthless shepherd.

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Cross References

Zechariah 11:9I said, I will not shepherd you. What is dead, let it die. What is set aside, let it be set aside. And let those who are left devour one another’s flesh.

Mark 3:24When a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot last;

Galatians 5:15But, if you are continually wounding and preying on one another, take care that you are not destroyed by one another.

James 3:16For where envy and rivalry exist, there you will also find disorder and all kinds of bad, worthless actions.

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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