Zechariah 1:5

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3 Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return ^ato Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts.

4 “Do not be like your fathers, ^ato whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^b“Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the Lord.

5 “Your fathers, where are they?
And the prophets, do they live forever?

6 Yet surely ^aMy words and My statutes,
Which I commanded My servants the prophets,
Did they not overtake your fathers? “So they returned and said:
^b‘Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us,
According to our ways and according to our deeds,
So He has dealt with us.’ ” ’ ”

Vision of the Horses

7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet:

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where are they? - Israel has been destroyed and ruined in the bloody wars with the Assyrians; and Judah, in those with the Chaldeans.

The prophets, do they live for ever? - They also, who spoke unto your fathers, are dead; but their predictions remain; and the events, which have taken place according to those predictions, Proverbs that God sent them.

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