Zechariah 11:7

And I will feed Rather, So I fed, in accordance with the command given me in Zechariah 11:4. Comp. "and I fed," at the end of this verse.

even you or, therefore: i.e. "So I fed the flock of slaughter: therefore (because I had been commanded to do so, fed I) the poor of the flock." R. V. adopts A. V. margin: verily the poor of the flock.

two staves two, instead of one as on becoming shepherd he would naturally have done, to denote, as the names given them imply, that his twofold aim in discharging his office would be to ensure the comeliness and the unity of the flock. The latter name, "Bands," refers specially to the union between Judah and Israel.