Zechariah 7:1-14 NIV

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 7:8-14

What was said Zech. 7:7; that they should have heard the words of the former prophets, is here enlarged upon, for warning to these hypocritical enquirers, who continued their sins when they asked with great preciseness whether they should continue their fasts. This prophet had before put them in mind of their fathers? disobedience to the calls of the prophets, and what was the consequence of it (Zech. 1:4-6), and now here again; for others? harms should be our warnings. God's judgments upon... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:1

And it came to pass, in the fourth year of King Darius ,.... Near two years after the foundation of the temple was laid, Haggai 2:10 and near two years before it was finished, Ezra 6:15 when the work was going forward, and there was a great deal of reason to believe it would be completed: that the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu : which answers to part of our October, and part of November. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:2

When they had sent unto the house of God ,.... It is, in the Hebrew text, "when he sent Bethel"; which some, as Kimchi observes, take to be the name of a man that was sent along with those after mentioned; but the Targum and the Septuagint render it, "when", or "after he had sent unto Bethel": not the place so called in Jacob's time; but Jerusalem, where the temple or house of God was now building; and it may be observed, that the words are expressed in the singular number, "when he had... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:6

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink ,.... Either at common meals, or at their festivals: did not ye eat for yourselves , and drink for yourselves ? merely and only for their own refreshment and pleasure, and not for the glory of God; though that ought to be the principal end in eating and drinking, 1 Corinthians 10:31 . read more

John Gill

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

Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the former prophets ,.... As Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and others; suggesting that it would have been much better for them to have regarded the exhortations and instructions which the Lord sent them by his servants, which would have prevented their captivity; and so would have had no occasion of fasting and mourning: for those prophecies were delivered out when Jerusalem was inhabited, and in prosperity, and the cities thereof... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:8

And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying. Giving him orders to repeat what the former prophets had said, and to urge the same things on the people which they had before rejected, the rejection of which had issued in their ruin. read more

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 7:8-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:2

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:6

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:8

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