I was as little minded by you in your fasts as in your feasts, and I was as little pleased with your fasts as feasts; self was all in both, you looked no higher. Such fasting commends none to God; you had not been the worse if you had forborne such fasts, nor are you the better for such ill-managed abstinence.
Verse Zechariah 7:6. _AND WHEN YE DID EAT_] They had not observed those fasts as they should have done. They deplored the loss of their temple, and its riches, c., but they did not _humble themselves_...
AND WHEN YE EAT AND WHEN YE DRINK, IS IT NOT YE WHO EAT AND YE WHO DRINK? - Conversely now that, after your return, ye feast for joy, this is no religious act; ye have all the good of it, there is no...
II. QUESTIONS CONCERNING CERTAIN FASTS CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The question (Zechariah 7:1) _ 2. The reproof (Zechariah 7:4) 3. The lessons of the past (Zechariah 7:8)...
ZECHARIAH 7:1 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...
WHEN YE DID EAT, &C. Or, was it not ye that were the eaters, and ye the drinkers? FOR YOURSELVES. Not "before the Lord: or for His glory. See Deuteronomy 12:7. Deu 14:26. 1 Chronicles 29:22. and compa...
The Answer. First Section 5. _seventh month_ This fast appears to have been observed during the captivity, because in the seventh month "the murder of Gedaliah, _whom the king of Babylon made governo...
_did eat and … did drink_ Rather, EAT AND DRINK, as R. V. _did not ye eat for yourselves_, &c.?] Lit. IS IT NOT YOU WHO ARE EATING, AND YOU WHO ARE DRINKING? i.e. is it not simply an act terminating...
DISCOURSE: 1248 OUTWARD SERVICES VAIN WITHOUT OBEDIENCE Zechariah 7:4. 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...
THE FIRST ANSWERING STATEMENT. Zechariah 7:4-7 RV. Then came the word of Jehovah of hosts unto me, saying, Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned...
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? AND WHEN YE DID EAT, AND WHEN YE DID DRINK, DID NOT YE EAT FOR YOURSELVES, AND DRINK FOR YOURSE...
WARNINGS FROM THE PAST Chs.7 and 8 go together, and were spoken on a date (fourth day of the ninth month in the fourth year of Darius) two years later than the series of visions described above, viz....
GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 7 V1 The word of the *LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the 9th month (called) Kislev. This happened in the fourth year...
(4-7) The people (as in Isaiah 58:3) are rebuked for the hypocritical, or merely formal, nature of their fasts. The prophet does not, even further on, give any direct answer to their inquiry. He seems...
וְ כִ֥י תֹאכְל֖וּ וְ כִ֣י תִשְׁתּ֑וּ הֲ
Zechariah 8:1 "THE SEED OF PEACE" Zechariah 7:1; Zechariah 8:1 THE Visions have revealed the removal of the guilt of the land, the restoration of Israel to their standing before God, the revival of...
THE PENALTY OF INJUSTICE AND CRUELTY Zechariah 7:1-14 During their captivity the Jews observed four feasts. That of the 10th month recalled the first enclosure of Jerusalem by the enemies' lines; of...
The third message of Zechariah was uttered nearly two years later. It was a fourfold answer to an inquiry made by the people concerning the necessity for observing certain fasts. The history of these...
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat (h) [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]? (h) Did you not eat and drink for your own benefit and necessity, and so likewise you abstained ac...
_Yourselves, to gratify the senses more than from necessity, and without doing it for God's glory. (Haydock)_...
When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer, and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the Lord, 3 And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the pr...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...
By saying, that _to themselves they did eat and drink_, he intimates that to eat and to drink, or to abstain from eating and drinking, are things wholly unconnected with the worship of God. Another se...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, 9, AND 10. The prophecy, from chapter 7 to the end of the book, has for its special object the introduction of the Messiah in Israel, with the consequen...
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 a...
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]? Ver. 6. _And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink_] _q.d._ In all your actions, natural, civ...
_Then came the word of the Lord unto me_ When these men had proposed their case, and were expecting the priests' answer, God commissioned his prophet to give them the answer contained in the subsequen...
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? Both their fasting and their feasting, so the Lord reminds them, was conducted without regard to Him...
THE QUESTION PROPOSED...
A QUESTION ANSWERED NEGATIVELY (vv. 1-7) The visions and prophecies of the first six Chapter s are connected with the eighth month of the second year of the reign of Darius (Zechariah 1:1). It is tw...
DID NOT YE: Or, be not ye they that etc....
1-7 If we truly desire to know the will of God in doubtful matters, we must not only consult his word and ministers, but seek his direction by fervent prayer. Those who would know God's mind should c...
Zechariah 7:6 eat H398 (H8799) drink H8354 (H8799) eat H398 (H8802) drink H8354 (H8802) did not ye ea
QUESTIONS ABOUT FASTING (ZECHARIAH 7:1). There may be a contrast intended here between those who had come from Babylon seeking news about the Branch, bringing gold and silver for his crown, who had ha...
YHWH CHARGES THEM WITH FALSE MOTIVES IN THEIR FASTING (ZECHARIAH 7:4). Zechariah 7:4 ‘Then came the word of YHWH of Hosts to me saying, “Speak to all the people of the land and the priests saying, ‘W...
FURTHER PROPHECIES OF ZECHARIAH (ZECHARIAH 7:1 TO ZECHARIAH 8:23) These prophecies occur approximately two years after the previous ones demonstrating that Zechariah's ministry continued. It would ap...
Zechariah 7:1. _And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;_ God's prophets were not al...
CONTENTS: The mission from Babylon, and Jehovah's answer to the question of fasts. Why prayer was not answered. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Darius, Zechariah, Sherezer, Regemmelich. CONCLUSION: Wh...
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 i...
_Did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me?_ REBUKE OF MERE CEREMONIES God had, through successive ages, exhorted the Jews to true repentance, and condemned their dissimulation, that they might not thin...
ZECHARIAH 7:1 From Fasts to Feasts. This section mentions fasts that commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem, which will be transformed into feasts celebrating its renewal. The renewal gives the peop...
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, a...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-8:23 Part II. THE ANSWER TO A QUESTION CONCERNING THE OBSERVANCE OF CERTAIN FASTS. ZECHARIAH 7:1 § 1. A deputation comes fr
Now 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 th...
1 Chronicles 29:22; 1 Corinthians 10:31; 1 Corinthians 11:20; 1 Corinthians 11:21;...
For yourselves — I was as little minded by you in your fasts, as in your feasts....