Zechariah 1:6
But 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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5Your fathers, where are they? Where are the prophets, are they here forever? 1
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, 2 Or a human being, that he should change his mind. 1 Has he promised anything without doing it? 2 Has he said he would do something without carrying it out?
Numbers 33:56Then it will happen that what I now intend to do to those people, I will do also to you.'”
Deuteronomy 28:20Yahweh will send on you curses, confusion, and rebukes in all that you put your hand to, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly because of your wicked actions by which you will have forsaken me.
2 Kings 15:12This was the word of Yahweh that he spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” That is what happened.
2 Chronicles 36:19They burned down the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all the beautiful things in it.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, 1 because their speech and their actions are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory. 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 →