Zechariah 11:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. That I might break the brotherhood - I cannot, says Newcome, explain this passage, without supposing that the kingdom of Israel subsisted when the prophet wrote it; and that either the wars between Judah and Israel are referred to, (see 2 Kings 16:5), or the captivity of the ten tribes, when the brotherly connection between these kingdoms ceased.