스가랴 7:5-6 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:4-7

§ 2. In answer to the inquiry, the delegates are told that fasting is in itself an indifferent thing, but is to be estimated by the conduct of those who observe it. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:5

Unto all the people of the land. The message was not for Bethel only, but for all the restored Jews, for whose satisfaction the question had been asked. And to the priests. The prophet was to make known to the priests God's will in this matter, it not being a mere ritual question. Fifth month (see note on Zechariah 7:3 ). The original question referred only to this fast; the answer embraces also another fast appointed by human authority. The seventh month . This fast was instituted... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:6

When ye did eat, etc.; better, when ye eat and when ye drink. As in your fasts, so in your rejoicings and your daily life. Did not ye eat for yourselves, etc.? literally, Is it not ye who are eating and ye who are drinking? There the matter ends; it is self that is concerned, and there is no reference to God. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:5

Speak unto all the people of the land - They of Bethel had spoken as one man, as Edom said to Israel, “Thou shalt not pass by me” Numbers 20:18; and “the men of Israel said to the Hivite; Perhaps thou dwellest in the midst of me, and how shall I make a league with thee?” Joshua 9:7. God gives the answer not to them only, but to all like-minded with them, “all the people of the land,” the whole population (in our language); as Jeremiah says, “ye and your fathers, your kings and your princes and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 7:6

And when ye eat and when ye drink, is it not ye who eat and ye who drink? - Conversely now that, after your return, ye feast for joy, this is no religious act; ye have all the good of it, there is no thanksgiving to God. Contrary to the apostle’s saying, “Whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glow of God” 1 Corinthians 10:31. “He eateth and drinketh to himself, who receiveth the nourishments of the body, which are the common gifts of the Creator, without the needy. And... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 7:4-6

Zechariah 7:4-6. Then came the word of the Lord unto me When these men had proposed their case, and were expecting the priests’ answer, God commissioned his prophet to give them the answer contained in the subsequent part of this and in the following chapter; saying, Speak unto all the people of the land Let all the people in general, and not only those who have proposed the question, know what I am now about to say to thee, in answer to it. When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and... 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 7:5

in the fifth. month. The month Ab (our August, App-51 . V). The fast had already then been instituted to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem on the tenth of Ab (Jeremiah 52:12 , Jeremiah 52:13 ). seventh month. The month Tisri (our October). The fast had already then been instituted, on the third of Tisri, to commemorate the murder of Gedaliah by Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah. See Jeremiah 40:8 ; Jeremiah 41:1-3 , Jeremiah 41:15-18 . See further notes on Zechariah 8:19 . even. Some... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Zechariah 7:6

when ye did eat, &c. Or, was it not ye that were the eaters, and ye the drinkers? for yourselves. Not "before the Lord: or for His glory. See Deuteronomy 12:7 ; Deu 14:26 . 1 Chronicles 29:22 ; and compare 1 Chronicles 3:17; 1 Chronicles 3:17 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Zechariah 7:6

"And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves. Should ye not hear the words which Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?"These two verses conclude the prophet's first statement regarding the question of fasting. Instead of giving a flat "yes" or "no" as the answer to their problem, he first pointed out that what they... read more