Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 used to invade 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 is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, and we fly away.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to make clear all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.
Ecclesiastes 12:7And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
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 →