Isaiah 11:13

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

Envy also of Ephraim shall depart ... Judah. "The envy" on the part of Ephraim, wherewith they were jealous of any rival in prowess, began as early as the time in ; , etc. Joshua had sprung from and resided among the Ephraimites (; ). The sanctuary was with them in Shiloh for a long time (). The jealousy increased subsequently, when Abner set up Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, to be king of Israel against David, king of Judah (, etc.; 3:10), and in the rebellions of Absalom and of Sheba, son of Bichri (; ). Even before David's time (; ) they had appropriated to themselves the national name Israel. It ended in disruption under Jeroboam (, etc.; 12: cf. ; ).

And the adversaries of Judah - rather, 'the adversaries from Judah;' those of Judah hostile to the Ephraimites (Hengstenberg). So , "the poor among (literally, of) men." The contrast to 'the envy of Ephraim,' namely, against Judah, requires this, as also the parallelism to "Judah shall not vex Ephraim" (; ; ). The only objection is the rule that if a participle be in the construct state, its genitive is that of the object, not of the subject. But tzoreer is often used of an adversary as a noun; so that as such it can be construed with the genitive of the subject.