Zechariah 11:14
And I cut asunder my second staff, Bands, to break the unity between Judah and Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
15And Jehovah saith unto me, 'Again take to thee the instrument of a foolish shepherd.
Cross References
Isaiah 11:13And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, And the adversaries of Judah are cut off, Ephraim doth not envy Judah, And Judah doth 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 more as two nations, Nor are they divided any more 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 neighbour.'
Mark 3:24and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;
Galatians 5:15and if one another ye do bite and devour, see — that ye may not by one another be consumed.
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 →