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Zechariah 11:10 KJV
Zechariah · chapter 11 · verse 10
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.Zechariah 11:10 · King James Version
Zechariah 11:10 in context
8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
9Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
10And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
11And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
12And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- covenantbᵉrîytha compactH1285 →
- asundergâdaʻto fell a treeH1438 →
- BeautynôʻamagreeablenessH5278 →
- staffmaqqêla shootH4731 →
- breakpârarto break upH6565 →
- tooklâqachto takeH3947 →
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The prophet here is made a type of Christ, as the prophet Isaiah sometimes was; and the scope of these verses is to show that for judgment Christ came into this world (Joh 9:39), for judgment to the Jewish church and nation, which were, about the time of his coming, wretchedly corrupted and degenerated by the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-14