Zechariah 7:6
And when you eat and drink, don't you eat and drink for yourselves?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:7That's where, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families will eat and celebrate everything you've worked for, because the Lord your God has blessed you.
1 Samuel 16:7But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don't look at his outward appearance or how tall he is, because I have rejected him, for the Lord does not look as human beings do. Human beings only see with their eyes what's on the outside, but the Lord looks at the way people think deep inside.”
Jeremiah 17:9The mind is more deceptive than anything else—it's incurably sick! Who can possibly understand it?
Hosea 9:4You won't pour out any drink offerings to the Lord. None of your sacrifices will please him. Your sacrifices will be like food eaten by a person in mourning —all who eat will be unclean. You will eat this food yourselves, but it will not enter the house of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:20When you meet together you're not really celebrating the Lord's Supper at all.
Colossians 3:17Whatever you do, whether in word or action, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, praising God the Father through him.
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 →