Zechariah 7:5
Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though ye fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh months (yea, behold, these seventy years) have ye at all fasted to me?
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
6And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?
Cross References
2 Kings 25:25And it came to pass in the seventh month that Ismael son of Nathanias son of Helisama, of the + 25:25 Gr. seed of the kings.seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and he smote Godolias, that he died, him and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him in Massepha.
Isaiah 58:3saying, Why have we fasted, and thou regardest not? why have we afflicted our souls, and thou didst not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts ye find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power ye wound.
Jeremiah 25:11And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.
Zechariah 1:12Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord Almighty, how long wilt thou have no mercy on Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, which thou hast disregarded + 1:12 Gr. this seventieth year.these seventy years?
Zechariah 7:6And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 7:2-8
An Enquiry Concerning Fasting; Hypocrisy Reproved. ( b. c. 520.) 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; 2 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 prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so… Read the whole commentary →