Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
- BSB Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
- NKJV Then I cut in two my other staff, Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
- NASB Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
- NLT Then I took my other staff, Union, and cut it in two, showing that the bond of unity between Judah and Israel was broken.
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- Isa 9:21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Jas 3:16For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
- Matt 24:10Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
- Isa 11:13The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
- Jas 3:14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
- Ezek 37:16–20You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
- 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.
- Acts 23:7–10When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.
- Gal 5:15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
- Zech 11:9Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”
- Jas 4:1–3Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
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