Zechariah 11:10

I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

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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

9Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh."

11It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of the Lord.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:34After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.'

Psalms 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,God shines forth.

Psalms 90:17Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us;establish the work of our hands for us;yes, establish the work of our hands.

Jeremiah 31:31Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Ezekiel 16:59"For thus says the Lord God: 'I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and his end shall come with a flood, and until the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.

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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