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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-14

Chapter 7Now some men came to Zechariah with a question. While they were in Babylon they had been observing a couple of days of fasting. The day... they commemorated the day that the temple was destroyed by the Babylonian army. So they came to Zechariah with a question.It came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 7:1-14

Zechariah 7:1 . In the fourth year of Darius Hystaspes, in the ninth month, the end of November, a deputation went from Babylon to Jerusalem, a long journey in the beginning of winter, to enquire into and promote the work of the Lord. Zechariah 7:2 . They sent to the house of God, now so far finished as to be open for public worship, Sherezer, a Persian, præfectum Thesauri, the lord treasurer, and Regem-melech, that is, duke, thane, or lieutenant to the king, and their men, to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Zechariah 7:14

Zec 7:14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate. Ver. 14. But I scattered them with a whirlwind ] This is the second part of their punishment. The first was no audience or help from heaven at their greatest need, Zechariah 7:13 . This was the curse of Saul, 1 Samuel 28:15 ; of Moab, Isaiah 16:12 ; of David’s enemies, Psalms 18:41 .... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Zechariah 7:14

scattered: Zechariah 2:6, Zechariah 9:14, Leviticus 26:33, Deuteronomy 4:27, Deuteronomy 28:33, Deuteronomy 28:64, Psalms 58:9, Isaiah 17:13, Isaiah 21:1, Isaiah 66:15, Jeremiah 4:11, Jeremiah 4:12, Jeremiah 23:19, Jeremiah 25:32, Jeremiah 25:33, Jeremiah 30:23, Jeremiah 36:19, Amos 1:14, Nahum 1:3, Habakkuk 3:14 whom: Deuteronomy 28:33, Deuteronomy 28:49, Jeremiah 5:15 the land: Leviticus 26:22, 2 Chronicles 36:21, Jeremiah 52:30, Daniel 9:16-Job :, Zephaniah 3:6 the pleasant land: Heb.... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Zechariah 7:14

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.They laid the land desolate — By their sins. read more

Daniel Whedon

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

RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF MORAL AND CEREMONIAL REQUIREMENTS, Zechariah 7:1 to Zechariah 8:23. After a silence of nearly two years the voice of Zechariah was heard again. In the fourth year of Darius a deputation came to the prophet inquiring whether the observance of the fasts instituted to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem was still obligatory (Zechariah 7:1-3). This question would suggest itself to many as the temple neared completion, and as the seventy years since the destruction of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:7-14

The true requirements of Jehovah, 7-14. The vague answer, in 4-6, though it leaves, for the time being, the question unsolved, opens the way for a discourse, in which the prophet goes to the root of the matter and in which he gives the only true and satisfactory solution. He begins, in Zechariah 7:7, by calling attention to the things that are of real value in the sight of God. Should ye not hear the words The Hebrew has no verb, but it has been customary to supply it as do the English... read more

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