Zechariah 7:10-12

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 7:10

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor ,.... Such as have no husband to provide for them, nor father and mother to care for them, and are in a strange land, where they have no friends or acquaintance, and are poor, and can not help themselves. Laws of this kind were frequently inculcated among the Jews; see Deuteronomy 24:14 , and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart ; thoughts of evil are sinful, and forbidden by the law of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to hearken ,..... That is, the Jews, before the captivity, refusal to give heed to the above exhortations, and obey the voice of God in them: and pulled away the shoulder ; from serving the Lord, and supporting his interest: or "they gave", or presented, "a rebellious shoulder" F6 כתף סררת "scapulam aversam", Pagninus; "deflectentem", Montanus; "rebellem", Munster, Tigurine version; "refractarium", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so Ben Melech. ; a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:12

Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone ,.... The word here used is translated a "diamond" in Jeremiah 17:1 and it is said to be harder than a flint, Ezekiel 3:9 . The Jewish writers say F7 Misn. Sota, c. 9. sect. 12. Pirke Abot. c. 5. sect. 5. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. Kimchi in 1 Reg. vi. 7. Jarchi in Isa. v. 6. it is a worm like a barley corn, so strong as to cut the hardest stones in pieces; Moses (they say) used it in hewing the stones for the two tables... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:10

Evil against his brother in your heart - Do not indulge an unfavourable opinion of another: do not envy him; do not harbour an unbrotherly feeling towards him. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:11

Pulled away the shoulder - From under the yoke of the law, like an unbroken or restive bullock in the plough. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:12

Made their hearts as an adamant stone - שמיר shamir may mean the granite. This is the hardest stone with which the common people could be acquainted. Perhaps the corundum, of which emery is a species, may be intended. Bochart thinks it means a stone used in polishing others. The same name, in Hebrew, applies to different stones. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:10

Verse 10 He mentions here some other duties, but for the same purpose of showing, that the fear of God is not proved by ceremonies, but by acting justly towards our brethren, and not by abstaining only from doing wrong, but by being ready to help the miserable. As widows, and orphans, and strangers are exposed as it were to plunder, Moses often in the law recommends them to favor, and shows that God cares for them, and will be their defender, when by one injured. So also the Prophet speaks here... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:11

Verse 11 The Prophet here by referring to the fathers more sharply reproves the Jews of his age; for he saw that they differed but little from their fathers. The sum of what he says is, that the Jews in all ages dealt unfaithfully and perversely with God; for how much soever they boasted of their care and zeal for religion they yet sought to satisfy God only by vain trifles. This then was the Prophet’s object. For it is certain that there ever had been some pretense to religion in that nation... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Zechariah 7:12

Verse 12 He then comes to the heart, They made, he says, their heart adamant, or the very hardest stone. Some render it steel, and others flint. It means sometimes a thorn; but in this place, as in Ezekiel 3:9, and in Jeremiah 17:1, it is to be taken for adamant, or the hardest stone. (75) We now see that the Prophet’s object was to show that the Jews had no excuse, as if they had fallen away through error or ignorance, but had ever wilfully and perversely rejected sound doctrine. The Prophet... read more

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