Zechariah 7:5
Tell all the people of the land and the priests, “When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?
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In Context
4Then this message of the Lord of hosts came to me:
6When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Cross References
Zechariah 1:12Then the messenger of the Lord said, “ Lord of hosts, how long will you have no pity for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with which you have been angry for seventy years?”
Zechariah 7:6When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Matthew 5:16Let your light so shine before the eyes of others so that, seeing your good actions, they will praise your Father who is in heaven.
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 →