ゼカリヤ書 7:11 JCB

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:11

But they gave a backsliding shoulder - Like a restive animal, which would not endure the yoke, dull and stupid as the beasts: as Hosea says, “Israel slideth back like a backsliding heifer” Hosea 4:16. Nehemiah confesses the same; “they gave a backsliding shoulder and hardened their neck and would not hear” Nehemiah 9:29.And made heavy their ears - Fulfilling in themselves what God foretold to Isaiah would be the result of his preaching, “make their ears heavy.” The heart, which will not... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 7:9-12

Zechariah 7:9-12. Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts Or did speak, that is, to your fathers, and thus he speaks to you now; Execute true judgment I often put your fathers in mind that judgment and mercy were more acceptable to me than fasting, or any external performances; (see the margin;) and I repeat the same admonition to you of the present age. And let none of you imagine evil against his brother, &c. Neither think ill of, nor wish ill to, nor plot evil against one another. But... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-14

7:1-8:23 A QUESTION ABOUT CERTAIN FASTSMourning over the past (7:1-14)In captivity the Jews had instituted four fasts to mourn the destruction of Jerusalem. One fast was in the tenth month, which was the month the Babylonians laid siege to the city. One was in the fourth month, to mark the day eighteen months later when the Babylonians broke through the walls and invaded the city. Another was in the fifth month, to mark the destruction of the temple. The other was in the seventh month, to mark... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zechariah 7:11

But they. Some codices, with four early printed editions, read "and ye", showing the Figure of speech Polysyndetion ( App-6 ). refused, &c . Compare Zechariah 1:4 .Jeremiah 6:10 , Jeremiah 6:17 , Jeremiah 6:19 , &c. and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton ( App-6 ) for emphasis. pulled away, &c. Turning aside from the one who speaks. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zechariah 7:11

"But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears that they might not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts and sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Jehovah of hosts."These verses are one of the most eloquent witnesses in the Bible to the effect that the Law, that is, the Pentateuch, existed before the former prophets (all of them).... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 7:11

Zechariah 7:11. Pulled away the shoulder— They refused to obey, and turned their backs on instruction. The Hebrew סררת ףּכת ויתנו vaiittenu kateph soreret is literally, They gave a backsliding shoulder; like him who offers his shoulder to carry a burthen with another, and afterwards slides from it, and leaves his companion overpowered with the weight. See Calmet. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:11

11. pulled away the shoulder—literally, "presented a refractory shoulder"; an image from beasts refusing to bear the yoke ( :-, Margin). stopped . . . ears— (Isaiah 6:10; Jeremiah 7:26; Acts 7:57). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zechariah 7:8-14

C. The command to repent 7:8-14Having referred to the words of the former prophets (Zechariah 7:7), Zechariah now summarized them as an exhortation to his own generation of Israelites. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zechariah 7:11-12

When the former generations of Israelites had heard these commands, they refused to pay attention to the Lord. They turned away from Him stubbornly like a rebellious ox, and they put their fingers in their ears so they would not hear Him. They hardened their hearts (minds and wills) like flint (Heb. shamir, diamond) so they could not hear the Law or the Holy Spirit’s messages through the former prophets whom God had sent to them."This remarkable doctrine of the Holy Spirit as mediator of God’s... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:1-14

Warnings From the PastChs.7 and 8 go together, and were spoken on a date (fourth day of the ninth month in the fourth year of Darius) two years later than the series of visions described above, viz. in 518 b.c. (On contemporary events see on Zechariah 6:8.) They are Zechariah’s answer to a question put to him by certain visitors to Jerusalem, who asked whether the fast observed by the Jews in the fifth month, in memory of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, should still be kept.... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 7:9-12

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zechariah 7:11

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zechariah 7:11

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 7:11

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zechariah 7:8-14

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Zechariah 7:11-12

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:1-14

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