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Text -- Zechariah 7:1-10 (NET)
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The Hypocrisy of False Fasting
7:1 In King Darius ’ fourth year , on the fourth day of Kislev , the ninth month , the word of the Lord came to Zechariah .
7:2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the Lord’s favor
7:3 by asking both the priests of the temple of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets , “Should we weep in the fifth month , fasting as we have done over the years ?”
7:4 The word of the Lord who rules over all then came to me,
7:5 “Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months through all these seventy years , did you truly fast for me– for me , indeed?
7:6 And now when you eat and drink , are you not doing so for yourselves?’”
7:7 Should you not have obeyed the words that the Lord cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities , the Negev , and the Shephelah were also populated ?
7:8 Again the word of the Lord came to Zechariah :
7:9 “The Lord who rules over all said , ‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other .
7:10 You must not oppress the widow , the orphan , the foreigner , or the poor , nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow human being .’
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
ZECHARIAH, BOOK OF |
Fast |
FASTS |
Impenitence |
Sherezer |
FEASTS AND FASTS |
Prophecy |
Regem-melech |
Kindness |
Sharezer |
EZEKIEL, 1 |
ZECHARIAH (1) |
Minister |
Hypocrisy |
Month |
Commandments |
Poor |
INTERCESSION |
Rulers |
Temple |
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NET Notes: Zec 7:1 The fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month would be December 7, 518 b.c., 22 months after the previous eight visions.
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NET Notes: Zec 7:3 This lamentation marked the occasion of the destruction of Solomon’s temple on August 14, 586 b.c., almost exactly 70 years earlier (cf. 2 Kgs 2...
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NET Notes: Zec 7:5 The seventh month apparently refers to the anniversary of the assassination of Gedaliah, governor of Judah (Jer 40:13-14; 41:1), in approximately 581 ...
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