Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 11:14

14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands , that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel .

So soon as I saw what value they put upon me, or presently after the casting them off from the Covenant, and unchurching them.

Ch[illegible: 1 letter]ist did it really, the Prophet did it in the Type.

Took no further care to keep them in civil peace among themselves, but left them to their seditious humours, and in humane animosities. Religion which is true, is the best bond of peace, Friendship, and Love, when the Jews cast off Religion, and murthered their Lord, next they fall to murthering one another.

Declare it broken, leave them to shew 'twas broken.

That Friendship which had been among them.

The two Tribes.

The remnant of the ten Tribes which fell into most unnatural seditions after the death of Christ, till the taking of Ierusalem by the Romans.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word].