Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. The breaking of the bond of union between Judah and Israel's 10 tribes under Rehoboam is here the image used to represent the fratricidal discord of factions which raged within Jerusalem on the eve of its fall, while the Romans were thundering at its gates without. See Josephus, 'Bellum Judaicum.' Also the continued severance of the tribes until their coming re-union (Romans 11:15).