Zechariah 7:6

When you ate and drank, did you not eat and drink for yourselves?

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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 to all the people of the land and to the priests and say, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, were you truly fasting for me?

7Were these not the same words that Yahweh proclaimed by the mouth of the former prophets, when you still inhabited Jerusalem and the surrounding cities in prosperity and were settled in the Negev, and the foothills to the west?'”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:7It is there that you will eat before Yahweh your God and rejoice about everything that you have put your hand to, you and your households, where Yahweh your God has blessed you.

1 Samuel 16:7But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Do not look at his outward appearance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him. For Yahweh does not see as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks on the heart.”

Jeremiah 17:9The heart is more deceitful than anything else. It is sick; who can understand it? 1

Hosea 9:4They will pour out no wine offerings to Yahweh, 1 neither will they be pleasing to him. 1 Their sacrifices will be to them like mourners' food: 1 all who eat it will be defiled. 1 For their food will be for themselves only; 1 it will not come into the house of Yahweh. 1

1 Corinthians 11:20For when you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat.

Colossians 3:17Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Give thanks to God the Father through him.

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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