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Zechariah 11

Zech. 11:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then I cut asunder
gada` (Hebrew #1438)
to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything
KJV usage: cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.
Pronounce: gaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
mine other
sheniy (Hebrew #8145)
properly, double, i.e. second; also adverbially, again
KJV usage: again, either (of them), (an-)other, second (time).
Pronounce: shay-nee'
Origin: from 8138
staff
maqqel (Hebrew #4731)
from an unused root meaning apparently to germinate; a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)
KJV usage: rod, ((hand- ))staff.
Pronounce: mak-kale;
Origin: or (feminine) maqqlah {mak-kel-aw'}
, even βBands
chabal (Hebrew #2254)
to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)
KJV usage: X at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lab to (take a) pledge. spoil, travail, X very, withhold.
Pronounce: khaw-bal'
Origin: a primitive root
, that I might break
parar (Hebrew #6565)
to break up (usually figuratively, i.e. to violate, frustrate
KJV usage: X any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, X clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, X utterly, make void.
Pronounce: paw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
the brotherhood
'achavah (Hebrew #264)
fraternity
KJV usage: brotherhood.
Pronounce: akh-av-aw'
Origin: from 251
between Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
and Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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or, Binders.

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Ministry on This Verse

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I cut.
Zech. 11:9• 9And I said, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die; and that which perisheth let it perish; and let them which are left eat every one the flesh of another. (Zech. 11:9)
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Isa. 9:21• 21Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. (Isa. 9:21)
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Isa. 11:13• 13And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the troublers of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah will not trouble Ephraim: (Isa. 11:13)
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Ezek. 37:16‑20• 16And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel, his companions. And take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.
 17And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thy hand.
 18And when the children of my people speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not declare unto us what thou meanest by these?
 19say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions, and will put them with this, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
 20And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes. (Ezek. 37:16‑20)
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Matt. 24:10• 10And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another; (Matt. 24:10)
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Acts 23:7‑10• 7And when he had spoken this, there was a tumult of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.
 8For Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but Pharisees confess both of them.
 9And there was a great clamour, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part rising up contended, saying, We find nothing evil in this man; and if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel …
 10And a great tumult having arisen, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been torn in pieces by them, commanded the troop to come down and take him by force from the midst of them, and to bring him into the fortress. (Acts 23:7‑10)
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Gal. 5:15• 15but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another. (Gal. 5:15)
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James 3:14,16• 14but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
 16For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing. (James 3:14,16)
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James 4:1‑3• 1Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence,--from your pleasures, which war in your members?
 2Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.
 3Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures. (James 4:1‑3)
Bands.
or, Binders.
Zech. 11:7• 7So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. (Zech. 11:7)
• (Ezek. 37:15-22). When therefore Messiah returns and establishes His kingdom His promise will be fulfilled, and it would have been fulfilled when He first came had He been received by His people. Having been rejected, as we have seen, the reunion of Judah and Ephraim was necessarily, like the gathering of the nations, postponed; and this was set forth in our passage by the cutting asunder of the staff Bands. And thus the brotherhood between the two nations is irrevocably broken, and can never be re-established, even though both were found again in the land, until both are united under the sway of the true Son of David. (“Zechariah 11” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I cut asunder mine other staff, Bands, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.