Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:1And Samuel died. And all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
2 Kings 13:20And Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
Psalms 90:10The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.
Ecclesiastes 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Acts 13:36For indeed David, who served his own generation in the plan of God, became asleep, and was added near his fathers, and saw decay.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 1:2-7
Zechariah This prophet was colleague with the prophet Haggai, and a worker together with him in forwarding the building of the second temple ( Ezra v. 1 ); for two are better than one. Christ sent forth his disciples two and two. Zechariah began to prophesy some time after Haggai. But he continued longer, soared higher in visions and revelations, wrote more, and prophesied more particularly concerning Christ, than Haggai had done; so the last shall be first: the last in time sometimes proves first in dignity. He… Read the whole commentary →