Zechariah 7:6

And when ye eat, and when ye drink, are ye not they that eat, and they that drink?

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

5'Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me?

7Should ye not hearken to the words which the LORD hath proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the Lowland were inhabited?'

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:7and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

1 Samuel 16:7But the LORD said unto Samuel: 'Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.'

Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceeding weak — who can know it?

Hosea 9:4They shall not pour out wine-offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto Him; their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners, all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite, it shall not come into the house of the LORD.

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 →

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