撒迦利亞書 7:3-5 CUNPTS

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-7

This occasional sermon, which the prophet preached, and which is recorded in this and the next chapter, was above two years after the former, in which he gave them an account of his visions, as appears by comparing the date of this (Zech. 7:1), in the ninth month of the fourth year of Darius, with the date of that (Zech. 1:1), in the eighth month of the second year of Darius; not that Zechariah was idle all that while (it is expressly said that he and Haggai continued prophesying till the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:3

And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the Lord of hosts ,.... That ministered in the sanctuary, as the Targum explains it, who offered sacrifices, &c.; and who were to be consulted in matters of religion, Malachi 2:7 , and to the prophets ; who were then in being, as Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi: saying, Should I weep in the fifth month ; which is the month Ab, and answers to July: now on the seventh day of this month, according to 2 Kings 25:8 , the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:4

Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying. Upon the sending of this embassy, and upon putting this question. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:5

Speak unto all the people of the land ,.... Of Judea, who had sent these men on this errand, and whom they represented, and in whose name they spake: and to the priests ; who were consulted on this occasion: saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth ; on the seventh or tenth day of the fifth month Ab, on account of the temple being burnt by Nebuchadnezzar: and seventh month ; the month Tisri, which answers to September; on the third day of this month a fast was kept on... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:5

When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth - month - This they did in the remembrance of the burning of the temple, on the tenth day of that month; and on the seventh month, on the third of which month they observed a fast for the murder of Gedaliah, and the dispersion of the remnant of the people which were with him. See Jeremiah 41:1 , and 2 Kings 25:25 . read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:3

Verse 3 Let us now consider the question which the captives proposed to the priests. They asked whether they were to weep in the fifth month, and whether they were to separate themselves as they had done for seventy years and more; for some years, as we have seen, had elapsed beyond that number. We hence learn that a regular fast was observed from the time in which the temple was burned and the city destroyed. He speaks here only of the fifth month, but shortly after mention is made of the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:4

Verse 4 Here the Prophet tells us that he was sent to the people and to the priests, not so much to teach the messengers who came from distant lands, as to correct the vices of his own nation; for the Jews had then begun, according to their usual manner, to dissemble with God, and had glided, as it has elsewhere appeared, into many evil practices. And it appears evident, that God did not commit to Zechariah what the messengers might bring back to Chaldea; but that an occasion was taken to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:5

Verse 5 He therefore brings this charge against them, Have ye fasted to me? have ye eaten to me? as though he had said, “God regards not fastings, except they proceed from a sincere feeling and tend to a right and lawful end.” It was then the object of the Prophet to awaken the Jews, that they might not imagine that God was pacified by fasting or by any other frigid ceremonies, but that they might know that something more was required. And we see how prone mankind are to rely on external rites,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-3

§ 1. A deputation comes from Bethel to ask whether a fast instituted in memory of the calamity of Jerusalem was still to be observed. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-7

Hypocrisy unmasked. "And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah," etc. In the latter half of the last chapter we were told of an embassy to Jerusalem, which met with acceptance and honour. In the present passage we read of another, which meets with just the opposite treatment. The question asked by these messengers is not answered at all in this chapter. Not only so, those who ask it are indirectly rebuked for so doing. Why this... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-7

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