Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
That I might break the brotherhood - I cannot, says Newcome, explain this passage, without supposing that the kingdom of Israel subsisted when the prophet wrote it; and that either the wars between Judah and Israel are referred to, (see II Kings 16:5), or the captivity of the ten tribes, when the brotherly connection between these kingdoms ceased.
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