Zechariah 11:11

"I took my staff Favor and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples."

Key Reflection

In Zechariah 11:11, God symbolically breaks his covenant with the nations through the act of severing a staff named "Favor." This action reflects a profound shift in divine relationships, mirroring the prophetic tradition where broken covenants signify estrangement or judgment. The cultural context highlights that such an act was dramatic and would have signaled to the ancient Israelites the termination of God’s former favorable relationship with the nations, emphasizing the serious nature of covenantal breaches in biblical thought.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And so the poor of the flock that waited upon Me knew -The rest were blinded; those who listened to God’s word, observed His prophet, waited on Him and observed His words, knew from the fulfillment of the beginning, that the whole was God’s word. Every darkening cloud around the devoted city was an earnest, that the storm, which should destroy it, was gathering upon it. So our Lord warned, “When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart”Luke 21:20-21.

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