Thematic Bible: Sticks and staves
Thematic Bible
Symbols and similitudes » Sticks and staves
So I tended the flock doomed to slaughter, for the sheep-merchants, - and took unto me two staves, the one, I called Grace, and, the other, I called Union, thus I tended the sheep,
Verse Concepts
Then cut I in two my second staff, even Union, - that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Verse Concepts
Thou therefore Son of man Take thee one stick, and write upon it For Judah, and for the sons of Israel his companions, Then take thou another stick, and write upon it For Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel his companions. Then bring them near - the one to the other - for thee into one stick,- And they shall become united in thy hand.
So I took my staff Grace, and cut it in two, - that I might set aside my covenant which I had solemnised with all the peoples. When it was broken, on that day, then did the sheep- merchants who were watching me, know, that, the word of Yahweh, it was.