Zechariah 11:10

The Shepherd breaks the staff 'Favor,' annulling a covenant of restraint He had with the peoples. It matters because it signals the withdrawal of God's protective grace over the nation.

Cross-references · 20

• Zech 11:7So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
• Ps 89:39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
• Jer 31:31–32“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
• Heb 8:8–13For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
• Jer 14:21Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
• Luke 21:5–6As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
• Heb 7:17–22for it is testified, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”
• Ps 90:17Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
• 1 Sam 2:30“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.
• Luke 21:32Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished.
• Rom 9:3–5For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
• Hos 1:9He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
• Acts 6:13–14and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
• Num 14:34After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
• Ps 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
• Ezek 7:20–22As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
• Ezek 16:59–61“‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
• Ezek 24:21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
• Dan 9:26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
• Gal 3:16–18Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants ”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring ”, which is Christ.

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