Zechariah 11:10

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁴This is what the LORD my God says: "Pasture the flock marked for slaughter, ⁵whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, 'Praise the LORD, for I am rich!' Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them. ⁶For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land," declares the LORD, "but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hand of his neighbor and of his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands." ⁷So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock. ⁸And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me. ⁹Then I said, "I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; let the rest devour one another's flesh." ¹⁰Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.¹¹It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD. ¹²Then I told them, "If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. ¹³And the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter"-this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

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Beauty: Zechariah 11:7, Psalms 50:2, Psalms 90:17, Ezekiel 7:20-22, Ezekiel 24:21, Daniel 9:26, Luke 21:5, Luke 21:6, Luke 21:32, Acts 6:13, Acts 6:14, Romans 9:3-5

that: Numbers 14:34, 1 Samuel 2:30, Psalms 89:39, Jeremiah 14:21, Jeremiah 31:31, Jeremiah 31:32, Ezekiel 16:59-61, Hosea 1:9, Galatians 3:16-18, Hebrews 7:17-22, Hebrews 8:8-13

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:19 - brake them Judges 2:1 - I will never 2 Samuel 1:19 - beauty Psalms 23:4 - thy rod Jeremiah 48:17 - How Luke 12:51 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 11:17
And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:21
And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:22
When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.

Genesis 11:27
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I took my staff, [even] Beauty, and cut it asunder,.... Signifying that he dropped his pastoral care of them: the Gospel indeed, which is meant by the staff "Beauty", cannot be made void; it will have its designed effect; it is the everlasting Gospel, and will endure; its blessings, promises, doctrines, ordinances, and ministers, shall continue, till all the elect are gathered in, even unto the second coming of Christ: but then it may be removed from one place to another; it may be taken from one people, and given to another; and which is generally owing to contempt of it, unfruitfulness under it, and indifference to it; and this is the case here, it designs the taking away of the Gospel from the Jews, who despised it, and the carrying of it into the Gentile world; see Matthew 21:43:

that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people; not the covenant of works, that was made with all mankind in Adam; that was broke, not by the Lord, but by man; and was broke before the Gospel was published; nor the covenant of grace, for this was not made with all the people, nor can it be broken; but the Mosaic economy, the Sinai covenant, called the old covenant, which gradually vanished away: it was of right abolished at the death of Christ; when the Gospel was entirely removed, it more appeared to be so; and this was thoroughly done at the destruction of the city and temple. The last clause may be rendered, "which" covenant "I have made with all the people"; the Gentiles, having promised and given orders to send the Gospel unto them, which was accordingly done.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Leviticus 26:15; Deuteronomy 31:16, Deuteronomy 31:20; Isaiah 24:5; Jeremiah 11:10; Jeremiah 31:32; Ezekiel 16:59; Ezekiel 44:7, it is spoken of God, only to deny that He would break it (Leviticus 26:44; Judges 2:1, and, strongly, Jeremiah 33:20-21), or in prayer that He would not Jeremiah 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” (Hosea 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” Ezekiel 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” Zechariah 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 11:10. 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.