Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where are they? Where are the prophets, are they here forever? 1

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

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4Do not be like your fathers to whom the prophets cried out previously, saying, “Yahweh of hosts says this: Turn from your evil ways and wicked practices!” But they would not hear and did not pay attention to me—this is Yahweh's declaration.' 1

6But my words and my decrees that I commanded my servants the prophets, 1 have they not overtaken your fathers? So they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of hosts planned to do to us what our ways and actions deserved, so he has dealt with us.'”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:1Now Samuel died. All Israel gathered together and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

2 Kings 13:20Then Elisha died, and they buried him. Now groups of Moabites invaded the land at the beginning of the year.

Psalms 90:10Our years are seventy, 1 or even eighty if we are healthy; 1 but even our best years are marked by trouble and sorrow. 1 Yes, they pass quickly, and we fly away. 1

Ecclesiastes 9:1For I thought about all this in my mind to understand about the righteous and wise people and their deeds. They are all in God's hands. No one knows whether love or hate will come to someone. 1

Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the earth where it came from, 2 and the spirit returns to God who gave it. 1

Acts 13:36For when David had served the desires of God in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was laid with his fathers and his body experienced decay.

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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