Zechariah 7:4

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:4-7

YHWH Charges Them With False Motives In Their Fasting (Zechariah 7:4-7 ). Zechariah 7:4-6 ‘Then came the word of YHWH of Hosts to me saying, “Speak to all the people of the land and the priests saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, even to me? And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?’ ” ’ God’s reply through Zechariah is not just to the questioners. It... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:1-7

Zechariah 7:1-Judges : f. The original account of the question about the fasting and Zechariah’ s answer has been considerably amplified by the insertion of other prophecies, probably later compositions, though they bear some resemblance to the style of Haggai. Note the editorial introductions to the paragraphs beginning Zechariah 7:8 and Zechariah 8:1, which are unnecessary if Zechariah is the speaker throughout. The date is Dec. 4, 518. In Zechariah 7:2-Judges : we have an excerpt from... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Zechariah 7:4

Then, when these men had proposed their case, and expected the priests’ answer, came the word of the Lord; an answer from God, which follows in the 7th and 8th chapters of this book at large. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-7

CRITICAL NOTES.] The Didactic part. Replies to questions relative to fasts observed by the Jews, but which they supposed no longer binding after restoration to prosperity. Fourth] Two years, nearly, after the foundation of the temple was laid (Haggai 2:10-18), and nearly two years before it was finished. Chisleu] Corresponding with part of November and part of December. “The end of B. C. 518” [Pusey]. Zechariah 7:2. House of God] here a rendering for Bethel. Unto] A word for which there is no... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Zechariah 7:4-7

DISCOURSE: 1248OUTWARD SERVICES VAIN WITHOUT OBEDIENCEZechariah 7:4-7. Then came the word of the Lord of Hosts unto me, saying, Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the former prophets,... read more

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Zechariah 7:4-9

Zechariah 7:4-9Did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me? Rebuke of mere ceremoniesGod had, through successive ages, exhorted the Jews to true repentance, and condemned their dissimulation, that they might not think that true religion was made up of fasting and of similar things. Fastings being of themselves of no moment, a beginning ought to be made with true religion and spiritual worship. When this question about the fast was raised by the captives, much disputing prevailed among the people.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Zechariah 7:4

Zec 7:4 Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying, Ver. 4. Then came the word of the Lord of hosts ] This is often prefaced, for authority’s sake; and to procure audience and reverence. The Lord God hath spoken, who can but be affected? See that ye despise not him that speaketh from heaven. The angel, Matthew 28:7 , useth no other argument to assure the women of the truth of what he had told them but this, "Lo, I have told you." read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Zechariah 7:4

Lord of hosts: Isaiah 10:16 read more

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