'Broke' in the Bible
The answer will come back, "It is because they broke their covenant with the Lord their God and worshiped and served other gods."
The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it.
It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls.
They broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king's garden. (The Babylonians had the city surrounded.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.
The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the temple of the Lord, as well as the movable stands and the large bronze basin called the "The Sea." They took all the bronze to Babylon.