Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where are they? And will the prophets live unceasingly?

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In The King James Version

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

In Context

4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, saying: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked thoughts. But they did not heed, and neither did they pay attention to me, says the Lord.

6Yet truly my words and my lawfulness, which I entrusted to my servants the prophets, were indeed comprehended by your fathers, and so they were converted, and they said: Just as the Lord of hosts decided to do to us, according to our ways and according to our inventions, so has he done to us.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:1Then Samuel died, and all of Israel gathered together, and they mourned him. And they buried him at his house in Ramah. And David, rising up, descended to the desert of Paran.

2 Kings 13:20Then Elisha died, and they buried him. And the robbers from Moab came into the land in the same year.

Psalms 90:10Disaster will not draw near to you, and the scourge will not approach your tabernacle.

Ecclesiastes 9:1I have drawn all these things through my heart, so that I might carefully understand. There are just men as well as wise men, and their works are in the hand of God. And yet a man does not know so much as whether he is worthy of love or of hatred.

Ecclesiastes 12:7and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.

Acts 13:36For David, when he had ministered to his generation in accordance with the will of God, fell asleep, and he was placed next to his fathers, and he saw corruption.

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 →

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