Zechariah Chapter 11 verse 14 Holy Bible
Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.
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And I cut asunder mine other staff, Bands, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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And I cut asunder my second staff, Bands, to break the unity between Judah and Israel.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - I eat asunder mine other staff. As the flock, by their contemptuous payment, showed their alienation from the Shepherd, so he now, by his symbolical action, shows his rejection of them, and his surrender of them to anarchy, confusion, and ruin. The breaking of the first staff indicated that God withdrew his defensive care; the breaking of the staff called "Bands" signifies the utter dissolution of all the bends that held the nation together, the civil and social disunion that paved the way for the victory of the Romans, and issued in the final disruption which sent the Jews wandering through the world. This in the vision is represented as the breaking of the brotherhood between Judah and Israel, the component parts of the nation. Thus was hinted the ultimate rejection of the Jews in consequence of their treatment of Christ, the good Shepherd, who came unto his own, and his own received him not (comp. Matthew 23:36-38). This doom is declared more fully in the next section.
