Obedience Better than Fasting
1 Now in the fourth year of King Darius it came to pass that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Chislev,
2 when1 the people sent Sherezer, with Regem-Melech and his men, to the house of God,4 to pray before the Lord,
3 and to aask the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in bthe fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?”
4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
5 “Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you afasted and mourned in the fifth band seventh months cduring those seventy years, did you really fast dfor Me—for Me?
6 aWhen you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?
7 Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the aformer prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and bthe South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”
Disobedience Resulted in Captivity
8 Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,
9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:
a‘Execute true justice,
Show1 mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
a‘Execute true justice,
Show1 mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
10 aDo not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
bLet none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’
The alien or the poor.
bLet none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in John Wesley's Notes for Zechariah 7:1.
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