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Selected Verse: Zechariah 11:10 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
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| Zec 11:10 |
Strong Concordance |
And I took [03947] my staff [04731], even Beauty [05278], and cut it asunder [01438], that I might break [06565] my covenant [01285] which I had made [03772] with all the people [05971]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| covenant which I made with all the people--The covenant made with the whole nation is to hold good no more except to the elect remnant. This is the force of the clause, not as MAURER, and others translate. The covenant which I made with all the nations (not to hurt My elect people, Hos 2:18). But the Hebrew is the term for the elect people (Ammim), not that for the Gentile nations (Goiim). The Hebrew plural expresses the great numbers of the Israelite people formerly (Kg1 4:20). The article is, in the Hebrew, all the or those peoples. His cutting asunder the staff "Beauty," implies the setting aside of the outward symbols of the Jews distinguishing excellency above the Gentiles (see on Zac 11:7) as God's own people. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder - Not, as aforetime, did He chasten His people, retaining His relation to them: for such chastening is an austere form of love. By breaking the staff of His tender love, He signified that this relation was at an end.
That I might dissolve My covenant which I had made with all the people - Rather, "with all the peoples," that is, with all nations. Often as it is said of Israel, that they brake the covenant of God Lev 26:15; Deu 31:16, Deu 31:20; Isa 24:5; Jer 11:10; Jer 31:32; Eze 16:59; Eze 44:7, it is spoken of God, only to deny that He would break it (Lev 26:44; Jdg 2:1, and, strongly, Jer 33:20-21), or in prayer that He would not Jer 14:21. Here it is not absolutely the covenant with His whole people, which He brake; it is rather, so to speak, a covenant with the nations in favor of Israel, allowing thus much and forbidding more, with regard to His people. So God had said of the times of Christ; "In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground" (Hos 2:18, (20, Hebrew)); and, "I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land" Eze 34:25; and in Job "thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of' the field shall be at peace with thee" Job 5:23. This covenant He willed to annihilate. He would no more interpose, as He had before said, "I will not deliver from their hand" Zac 11:6. whoever would might do, what they would, as the Romans first, and well nigh all nations since, have inflicted on the Jews, what they willed; and Mohammedans too have requited to them their contumely to Jesus. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Even beauty - Which was the beauty and glory of them, the covenant of God, with all the blessings of it. That I might break - Declare it null. Christ calls it his covenant, for he was the mediator of it. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| I took my staff - Beauty, and cut it asunder - And thus I showed that I determined no longer to preserve them in their free and glorious state. And thus I brake my covenant with them, which they had broken on their part already. |
7 And I will feed [07462] the flock [06629] of slaughter [02028], even you [03651], O poor [06041] of the flock [06629]. And I took [03947] unto me two [08147] staves [04731]; the one [0259] I called [07121] Beauty [05278], and the other [0259] I called [07121] Bands [02254]; and I fed [07462] the flock [06629].
20 Judah [03063] and Israel [03478] were many [07227], as the sand [02344] which is by the sea [03220] in multitude [07230], eating [0398] and drinking [08354], and making merry [08056].
18 And in that day [03117] will I make [03772] a covenant [01285] for them with the beasts [02416] of the field [07704], and with the fowls [05775] of heaven [08064], and with the creeping things [07431] of the ground [0127]: and I will break [07665] the bow [07198] and the sword [02719] and the battle [04421] out of the earth [0776], and will make them to lie down [07901] safely [0983].
6 For I will no more pity [02550] the inhabitants [03427] of the land [0776], saith [05002] the LORD [03068]: but, lo, I will deliver [04672] the men [0120] every one [0376] into his neighbour's [07453] hand [03027], and into the hand [03027] of his king [04428]: and they shall smite [03807] the land [0776], and out of their hand [03027] I will not deliver [05337] them.
23 For thou shalt be in league [01285] with the stones [068] of the field [07704]: and the beasts [02416] of the field [07704] shall be at peace [07999] with thee.
25 And I will make [03772] with them a covenant [01285] of peace [07965], and will cause the evil [07451] beasts [02416] to cease [07673] out of the land [0776]: and they shall dwell [03427] safely [0983] in the wilderness [04057], and sleep [03462] in the woods [03293] [03264].
18 And in that day [03117] will I make [03772] a covenant [01285] for them with the beasts [02416] of the field [07704], and with the fowls [05775] of heaven [08064], and with the creeping things [07431] of the ground [0127]: and I will break [07665] the bow [07198] and the sword [02719] and the battle [04421] out of the earth [0776], and will make them to lie down [07901] safely [0983].
21 Do not abhor [05006] us, for thy name's [08034] sake, do not disgrace [05034] the throne [03678] of thy glory [03519]: remember [02142], break [06565] not thy covenant [01285] with us.
20 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; If ye can break [06565] my covenant [01285] of the day [03117], and my covenant [01285] of the night [03915], and that there should not be day [03119] and night [03915] in their season [06256];
21 Then may also my covenant [01285] be broken [06565] with David [01732] my servant [05650], that he should not have a son [01121] to reign [04427] upon his throne [03678]; and with the Levites [03881] the priests [03548], my ministers [08334].
1 And an angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] came up [05927] from Gilgal [01537] to Bochim [01066], and said [0559], I made you to go up [05927] out of Egypt [04714], and have brought [0935] you unto the land [0776] which I sware [07650] unto your fathers [01]; and I said [0559], I will never [05769] break [06565] my covenant [01285] with you.
44 And yet [0637] for all that [02063], when they be [01571] in the land [0776] of their enemies [0341], I will not cast them away [03988], neither will I abhor [01602] them, to destroy them utterly [03615], and to break [06565] my covenant [01285] with them: for I am the LORD [03068] their God [0430].
7 In that ye have brought [0935] into my sanctuary strangers [01121] [05236], uncircumcised [06189] in heart [03820], and uncircumcised [06189] in flesh [01320], to be in my sanctuary [04720], to pollute [02490] it, even my house [01004], when ye offer [07126] my bread [03899], the fat [02459] and the blood [01818], and they have broken [06565] my covenant [01285] because [0413] of all your abominations [08441].
59 For thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; I will even deal [06213] with thee as thou hast done [06213], which hast despised [0959] the oath [0423] in breaking [06565] the covenant [01285].
32 Not according to the covenant [01285] that I made [03772] with their fathers [01] in the day [03117] that I took [02388] them by the hand [03027] to bring them out [03318] of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714]; which my covenant [01285] they brake [06565], although I was an husband [01166] unto them, saith [05002] the LORD [03068]:
10 They are turned back [07725] to the iniquities [05771] of their forefathers [07223] [01], which refused [03985] to hear [08085] my words [01697]; and they went [01980] after [0310] other [0312] gods [0430] to serve [05647] them: the house [01004] of Israel [03478] and the house [01004] of Judah [03063] have broken [06565] my covenant [01285] which I made [03772] with their fathers [01].
5 The earth [0776] also is defiled [02610] under the inhabitants [03427] thereof; because they have transgressed [05674] the laws [08451], changed [02498] the ordinance [02706], broken [06565] the everlasting [05769] covenant [01285].
20 For when I shall have brought [0935] them into the land [0127] which I sware [07650] unto their fathers [01], that floweth [02100] with milk [02461] and honey [01706]; and they shall have eaten [0398] and filled [07646] themselves, and waxen fat [01878]; then will they turn [06437] unto other [0312] gods [0430], and serve [05647] them, and provoke [05006] me, and break [06565] my covenant [01285].
16 And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto Moses [04872], Behold, thou shalt sleep [07901] with thy fathers [01]; and this people [05971] will rise up [06965], and go a whoring [02181] after [0310] the gods [0430] of the strangers [05236] of the land [0776], whither they go [0935] to be among [07130] them, and will forsake [05800] me, and break [06565] my covenant [01285] which I have made [03772] with them.
15 And if ye shall despise [03988] my statutes [02708], or if your soul [05315] abhor [01602] my judgments [04941], so that ye will not do [06213] all my commandments [04687], but that ye break [06565] my covenant [01285]: