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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 7:13-14

Zechariah 7:13-14. Therefore On this very account; as he cried As I, by my Spirit in my prophets, called, warned, entreated, and urged them to repent, obey, and live, but they would not; so they cried In their deep distress, and amidst their overwhelming calamities; and I would not hear Would not answer, or regard their prayer. But I scattered them Cast them out of their habitations, and dispersed them through distant countries; with a whirlwind Suddenly and irresistibly; among... 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 7:14

I scattered them with a whirlwind. Not the usual verb, to scatter; but sa'ar = to drive with a tempest. Occurs only seven times (2 Kings 6:11 ("sore troubled"). Isaiah 54:11 .Hosea 13:3; 3 John 1:113 John 1:11 , Jonah 1:13 .Habakkuk 3:14; Habakkuk 3:14 ). the land was desolate. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:22 ). after them: i.e. when they had left it. pleasant = desirable. Daniel 8:9 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zechariah 7:14

"But I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. So that all the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate."Here again we have a change of tense: "I will scatter ... the land was desolate after them"; but there is a discernible reason for it. The prophecy, "I will scatter ... etc." had just been fulfilled in the Babylonian captivity and in the Assyrian captivity preceding it; but... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 7:14

Zechariah 7:14. I scattered them with a whirlwind— This sublime metaphor is expressed by a single word in the original, ואסערם vaeisaarem. See Archbishop Newcome. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Though we have nothing here recorded of the prophet for two years, we are assured that he was well employed, Ezr 6:14 but he had no commission to publish his discourses, till on the present occasion. We have, 1. The question proposed concerning fasting. Sherezer and Regem-melech, persons of some note, with their men,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:14

14. whirlwind—of wrath ( :-). nations whom they knew not—foreign and barbarous. desolate after them—after their expulsion and exile. It was ordered remarkably by God's providence, that no occupants took possession of it, but that during the Jews' absence it was reserved for them against their return after seventy years. they laid . . . desolate—The Jews did so by their sins. The blame of their destruction lay with themselves, rather than with the Babylonians ( :-). pleasant land—Canaan.... 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 7:13-14

Since the forefathers refused to listen to the Lord’s Spirit when He called to them (cf. Nehemiah 9:20; Nehemiah 9:30; 2 Peter 1:21), the Lord refused to listen to them when they called to Him in prayer (cf. Jeremiah 11:11-14). Instead He scattered them among many nations, as though a windstorm had blown them off the Promised Land (cf. Deuteronomy 28:36-37; Deuteronomy 28:64-68; Hosea 13:3). As a result, the land had become desolate with none of the Israelites returning to it during the... 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

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Zechariah 7:8-14

(8-14) The prophet implies that true fasting is to loose the bands of wickedness and leave off oppression. But Israel had adopted quite the opposite course, and therefore God, in accordance with Deuteronomy 4:27, had scattered them among the nations. read more