Zechariah 7
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The captives' inquiry about fasting
Verse 1
WEB It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
KJV 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;
TSK the fourth: zec 1:1, ezr 6:14,15, hag 2:10,20; Chisleu: ne 1:1
Verse 2
WEB The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,
KJV When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
TSK they: zec 6:10, ezr 6:10, ezr 7:15-23, ezr 8:28-30, isa 60:7; pray before the Lord: zec 8:21, ex 32:11, 1sa 13:12, 1ki 13:6, jer 26:19
Verse 3
WEB and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
KJV And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
TSK speak: de 17:9-11, de 33:10, eze 44:23,24, ho 4:6, hag 2:11, mal 2:7; Should: zec 7:5, ne 8:9-11, ne 9:1-3, ec 3:4, isa 22:12,13, joe 2:17, mt 9:15, jas 4:8-10; fifth: zec 8:19, 2ki 25:8,9, jer 52:12-14; separating: zec 12:12-14, 1co 7:5
Verse 4
WEB Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,
KJV Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
TSK Lord of hosts: isa 10:16
Verse 5
WEB “Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
KJV 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?
TSK When: isa 58:5; seventh: zec 8:19, 2ki 25:23, jer 41:1-4; seventy: zec 7:3, zec 1:12, jer 25:11; did: zec 7:6, isa 1:11,12, isa 58:4-6, mt 5:16-18, mt 6:2,5,16, mt 23:5, ro 14:6-9,17,18, 1co 10:31, 2co 5:15, col 3:23
Verse 6
WEB When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
KJV And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
TSK did not ye eat for: de 12:7, de 14:26, 1sa 16:7, 1ch 29:22, jer 17:9,10, ho 8:13, ho 9:4, 1co 10:31, 1co 11:20,21,26-29, col 3:17
Verse 7
WEB Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”
KJV Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?
TSK Should ye not hear the words: isa 55:3,6,7; cried: zec 1:3-6, isa 1:16-20, jer 7:5,23, jer 36:2,3, eze 18:30-32, da 9:6-14, ho 14:1-3, am 5:14,15, mic 6:6-8, zep 2:1-3; the south: de 34:3, jer 17:26, jer 32:44, jer 33:13
Sin the cause of their time as prisoners
Verse 8
WEB The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,
KJV And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
TSK No cross references.
Verse 9
WEB “Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
KJV Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
TSK saying: zec 7:7, zec 8:16,17, le 19:15,35-37, de 10:18,19, de 15:7-14, de 16:18-20, ps 82:2-4, pr 21:3, isa 58:6-10, jer 7:5,23, eze 45:9, ho 10:12,13, am 5:24, mic 6:8, mt 23:23, lu 11:42, jas 2:13-17; Execute true judgment: jer 21:12, joh 7:51
Verse 10
WEB Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
KJV And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
TSK oppress: ex 22:21-24, ex 23:9, de 24:14-18, de 27:19, ps 72:4, pr 22:22,23, pr 23:10, pr 23:11, isa 1:16,17,23, jer 5:28, jer 22:15-17, eze 22:7,12,29, am 4:1, am 5:11,12, mic 2:1-3, mic 3:1-4, zep 3:1-3, mal 3:5, mt 23:14, 1co 6:10, jas 5:4; imagine: ps 21:11, ps 36:4, ps 140:2, pr 3:29, pr 6:18, jer 11:19,20, jer 18:18, mic 2:1, mr 7:21-23, jas 1:14,15, 1jo 3:15
Verse 11
WEB But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
KJV But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
TSK they refused: zec 1:4, ex 10:3, 2ki 17:13-15, 2ch 33:10, ne 9:17,26,29, pr 1:24-32, isa 1:19,20, jer 6:16,17, jer 7:24, jer 13:10, jer 26:5,6, jer 35:15, jer 36:31, jer 44:16, eze 3:7, ho 4:16, da 9:5, zep 3:2, ac 7:51, heb 12:25; pulled away the shoulder: ne 9:29, jer 8:5, ho 4:16, heb 10:38,39; stopped: ps 58:4,5, isa 6:10, ac 7:57
Verse 12
WEB Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
KJV Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
TSK their hearts: ne 9:29, job 9:4, isa 48:4, jer 5:3, eze 2:4, eze 3:7-9, eze 11:19, eze 36:26; lest: ps 50:17, ne 9:29,30, isa 6:10, mt 13:15, mr 4:12, lu 8:12, joh 3:19, joh 3:20, ac 28:27, 2th 2:10-12; sent: ne 9:30, ac 7:51,52, 1pe 1:11,12, 2pe 1:21; therefore: 2ch 36:16, jer 26:19, da 9:11,12, 1th 2:15,16
Verse 13
WEB It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
KJV Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
TSK as: ps 81:8-12, pr 1:24-28, isa 50:2, jer 6:16,17, lu 13:34,35, lu 19:42-44; so: pr 21:13, pr 28:9, isa 1:15, jer 11:11, jer 14:12, eze 14:3, eze 20:3, mic 3:4, mt 25:11,12, lu 13:25, jas 4:3
Verse 14
WEB “but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
KJV But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
TSK scattered: zec 2:6, zec 9:14, le 26:33, de 4:27, de 28:33,64, ps 58:9, isa 17:13, isa 21:1, isa 66:15, jer 4:11,12, jer 23:19, jer 25:32,33, jer 30:23, jer 36:19, am 1:14, na 1:3, hab 3:14; whom: de 28:33,49, jer 5:15; the land: le 26:22, 2ch 36:21, jer 52:30, da 9:16-18, zep 3:6; the pleasant land: da 8:9