Zechariah 1:5

Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will they live forever?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4And be ye not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they hearkened not, and attended not to hearken to me, saith the Lord.

6But do ye receive my words and mine ordinances, all that I command by my Spirit to my servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers; and they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has he done to us.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:1And Samuel died, and all Israel assembled, and bewailed him, and they bury him in his house in Ramah: and David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Maon.

2 Kings 13:20And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites came into the land, at the beginning of the year.

Psalms 90:10No evils shall come upon thee, 1 And no scourge shall draw nigh to thy dwelling. 1

Ecclesiastes 9:1I saw that the righteous, and the wise, 1 And their works, are in the hand of God: 1 Yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, 1 Though all are before their face. 1

Ecclesiastes 12:7Before the dust also return to the earth as it was, 1 And the spirit return to God who gave it. 1

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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