撒迦利亚书 7:11-13 CUNPSS

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:8-14

§ 8. The people are further reminded that they had been disobedient in old time, and had been punished by exile. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:8-14

Hypocrisy warned. "And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts," etc. The severe rebuke of the previous verses seems followed up in these verses by a very solemn yet very merciful warning, intended apparently to save the Jews from the various evils to which their hypocrisy had exposed them. The language of God to their fathers, as referred to in verse 7, appears still (note "thus spake ," according to Pusey, Wardlaw, and others, in verse 9) the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:8-14

Religion, genuine and spurious. "And the Word of the Lord," etc. From this passage we infer three facts. I. GENUINE RELIGION IS PHILANTHROPIC . ( Isaiah 1:16 , Isaiah 1:17 ; Isaiah 58:6 , Isaiah 58:7 ; Matthew 5:44 .) "Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute tree judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother," etc. Here is the ritual, the manifestation, the proof of genuine religion, and it is practical philanthropy. The sign and evidence... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:11

Pulled away the shoulder; they gave a stubborn, refractory shoulder, like an ox which refuses to have the yoke put on his neck, or draws hack when it feels the weight ( Nehemiah 9:29 ; Hosea 4:16 ). Stopped their ears . Made their ears heavy. τὰ ὦτα αὐτῶν ἐβάρυναν ; Isaiah 6:10 ; Isaiah 59:1 . Three degrees of obduracy are named in this verse: they refused to listen; they resisted the warners; they exhibited open contempt for them. The full climax is given in the next... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:11

The history of ungodliness. I. GERM . The question is—Self or God, our own will or God's will. Must be settled. Pressed by prophet after prophet. The answer shows the state of the heart. "Refused to hear." II. PROGRESS . There is growth in evil, as in good Stages. "First the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear." 1 . Wilful refusal. "Pulled away the shoulder." Sinners will not submit to be guided by the higher will. Angry and fretted, they will not bow to God's... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts as an adamant stone. They made their hearts as hard as a stone which could receive no cutting or engraving; no message from God could find entrance; and this from their wilful obstinacy. The word rendered "adamant," shamir, probably means "diamond," a stone so hard, says Jerome, as to break all metals to pieces, but to be itself broken by none; hence it is called adamas, "unconquerable." Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 3:9 ) notes that it is harder than flint (comp. Jeremiah... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:13

As he cried. As the Lord called to them by the prophets. Just retri-button fell upon them ( Proverbs 1:24 , etc.; Isaiah 65:12 , Isaiah 65:13 ; Isaiah 66:4 ). So they cried, and I would not hear; rather, so they shall cry, and I will not hear. God will be deaf to their cry, and will give them up to their own ways ( Jeremiah 2:28 ). In the protasis Jehovah is spoken of in the third person, in the apodosis he speaks in the first. read more

Albert Barnes

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:12

Harder than adamant - The stone, whatever it be, was hard enough to cut ineffaceable characters : it was harder than flint . It would cut rocks; it could not be graven itself, or receive the characters of God.This is the last sin, obduracy, persevering impenitence, which “resisted the Holy Spirit” Acts 7:51. and “did despite to the Spirit of grace” Hebrews 10:29. Not through infirmity, but of set purpose, they hardened themselves, lest “they should convert” Isaiah 6:10 and be healed. They... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:13

And it came to pass - that is, this which God had said, “As He cried and they heard not, so shall they cry and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.” God had often said this. “It shall be too late to cry for mercy, when it is the time of justice.” So Wisdom had said by Solomon; “then, that is, when distress and anguish cometh upon them, they shall call upon Me, but I will not answer; they shall seek Me early, and they shall not find Me” Proverbs 1:27-28. So by Isaiah, “When ye spread forth... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:8-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:8-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:8-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:13

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:13

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