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Zechariah 11

Zech. 11:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And I took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
my 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 Beauty
no`am (Hebrew #5278)
agreeableness, i.e. delight, suitableness, splendor or grace
KJV usage: beauty, pleasant(-ness).
Pronounce: no'-am
Origin: from 5276
, and cut it 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
, 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
my covenant
briyth (Hebrew #1285)
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
KJV usage: confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
Pronounce: ber-eeth'
Origin: from 1262 (in the sense of cutting (like 1254))
which I had made
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
with all the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
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Ministry on This Verse

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Beauty.
Zech. 11:7• 7And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O 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)
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Psa. 50:2• 2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. (Psa. 50:2)
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Psa. 90:17• 17And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us,{HR}And the work of our hands establish thou upon us;{HR}Even the work of our hands, establish thou it. (Psa. 90:17)
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Ezek. 7:20‑22• 20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
 21And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
 22My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. (Ezek. 7:20‑22)
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Ezek. 24:21• 21Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. (Ezek. 24:21)
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Dan. 9:26• 26After the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof will be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (Dan. 9:26)
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Luke 21:5‑6,32• 5And as some spoke of the temple that it was adorned with goodly stones and consecrated offerings, he said,
 6[As for] these things which ye are beholding, days are coming in which stone shall not be left upon stone which shall not be thrown down.
 32Verily I say unto you that this generation shall in no wise pass away until all come to pass. (Luke 21:5‑6,32)
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Acts 6:13‑14• 13and set false witnesses, saying, This man ceaseth not speaking words against the holy place and the law;
 14for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses handed down to us. (Acts 6:13‑14)
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Rom. 9:3‑5• 3for I could wish, I myself, to be a curse from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh,
 4which are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the law-giving and the service and the promises;
 5whose are the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ as far as according to flesh, who is over all God blessed forever. Amen. (Rom. 9:3‑5)
that.
Num. 14:34• 34After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement from you. (Num. 14:34)
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1 Sam. 2:30• 30Wherefore the Lord Jehovah of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. (1 Sam. 2:30)
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Psa. 89:39• 39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant;{HR}Thou hast profaned his crown to the ground: (Psa. 89:39)
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Jer. 14:21• 21Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. (Jer. 14:21)
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Jer. 31:31‑32• 31Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
 32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:31‑32)
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Ezek. 16:59‑61• 59For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I also will act toward thee as thou hast acted, who hast despised the oath, breaking the covenant.
 60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
 61Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. (Ezek. 16:59‑61)
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Hos. 1:9• 9and he said, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. (Hos. 1:9)
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Gal. 3:16‑18• 16But to Abraham were addressed the promises, and to his seed; he doth not say “and to seeds” as of many, but as of one “and to thy seed,” which is Christ.
 17Now this I say: the covenant ratified beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, doth not annul so as to make the promise void.
 18For if the inheritance is of law, it is no more of promise; but to Abraham by promise God graciously gave [it]. (Gal. 3:16‑18)
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Heb. 7:17‑22• 17For the witness is, Thou [art] priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
 18For there cometh a setting aside of foregoing commandment on account of its weakness and unprofitableness
 19(for the law perfected nothing), and an introduction of a better hope through which we draw near to God.
 20And by how much not apart from oath-swearing
 21(for they indeed apart from oath-swearing are become priests, but he with oath-swearing by him that saith unto him, The Lord swore and will not repent, Thou [art] priest forever [according to the order of Melchizedek]
 22by so much Jesus hath become surety of a better covenant. (Heb. 7:17‑22)
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Heb. 8:8‑13• 8For finding fault he saith to them, Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, and I will make a new covenant on the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
 9not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in a day when I took their hand to lead them out of Egypt's land; because they continued not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith Jehovah.
 10Because this [is] the covenant which I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah, giving my laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.
 11And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all shall inwardly know me from little of them unto great of them;
 12because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember more.
 13In his saying, New, he hath made the first old; but that which groweth old and aged [is] near disappearing. (Heb. 8:8‑13)
• “All the people” should read “all the peoples,” in the sense of all the nations, for it is undoubtedly the Gentiles that are here in view. (“Zechariah 11” by E. Dennett)
• When Messiah came He was rejected; and hence the gathering of the peoples unto Him, though it will surely take place, is postponed — postponed until He comes the second time to Israel in power and glory. It is this which is indicated by the breaking of the staff Beauty. (“Zechariah 11” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoplesa.

JND Translation Notes

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Ammim. see Deut. 33.3; Ps. 66.8; 67.3,5.

W. Kelly Translation

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And I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)