Zechariah 7:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? ”

Zechariah 7:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And when ye eat and when ye drink, is it not ye who eat and ye who drink? - Conversely now that, after your return, ye feast for joy, this is no religious act; ye have all the good of it, there i...
Zechariah 7:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat (h) [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]? (h) Did you not eat and drink for your own benefit and necessity, and so likewise you abstained a...
Zechariah 7:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Zechariah 7:1-7 f. The original account of the question about the fasting and Zechariah's answer has been considerably amplified by the insertion of other prophecies, probably later compositions,...
Zechariah 7:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

when ye did eat, &c. Or, was it not ye that were the eaters, and ye the drinkers? for yourselves. Not "before the Lord: or for His glory. See Deuteronomy 12:7 . Deu 14:26. 1 Chronicles 29:...
Zechariah 7:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

By saying, that to themselves they did eat and drink, he intimates that to eat and to drink, or to abstain from eating and drinking, are things wholly unconnected with the worship of God....
Zechariah 7:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1248 OUTWARD SERVICES VAIN WITHOUT OBEDIENCE Zechariah 7:4-7 . Then came the word of the Lord of Hosts unto me, saying, Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, sayi...
Zechariah 7:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves , and drink for yourselves ? And when ye did eat - They had not observed those fasts as they should have done. They deplore...
Zechariah 7:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for y...
Zechariah 7:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Warnings From the Past Chs.7 and 8 go together, and were spoken on a date (fourth day of the ninth month in the fourth year of Darius) two years later than the series of visions described above, v...
Zechariah 7:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(4-7) The people (as in Isaiah 58:3-8 ) are rebuked for the hypocritical, or merely formal, nature of their fasts. The prophet does not, even further on, give any direct answer to their inquiry. He...
Zechariah 7:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Zechariah 8:1-23 "THE SEED OF PEACE" Zechariah 7:1-14 ; Zechariah 8:1-23 THE Visions have revealed the removal of the guilt of the land, the restoration of Israel to their standing before...
Zechariah 7:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Penalty of Injustice and Cruelty Zechariah 7:1-14 During their captivity the Jews observed four feasts. That of the 10th month recalled the first enclosure of Jerusalem by the enemies' line...
Zechariah 7:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The third message of Zechariah was uttered nearly two years later. It was a fourfold answer to an inquiry made by the people concerning the necessity for observing certain fasts. The history of thes...
Zechariah 7:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 p...
Zechariah 7:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink ,.... Either at common meals, or at their festivals: did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves] ? merely and only for their own refreshm...
Zechariah 7:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]? Ver. 6. And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink ] q.d. In all your actions, natural, c...
Zechariah 7:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then came the word of the Lord unto me When these men had proposed their case, and were expecting the priests' answer, God commissioned his prophet to give them the answer contained in the subseque...
Zechariah 7:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

A Question Answered Negatively (vv. 1-7) The visions and prophecies of the first six Chapter s are connected with the eighth month of the second year of the reign of Darius ( Zechariah 1:1 ). It...
Zechariah 7:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Enquiry Concerning Fasting; Hypocrisy Reproved. B. C. 520. 1 And it came to pass in t...
Zechariah 7:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I was as little minded by you in your fasts as in your feasts, and I was as little pleased with your fasts as feasts; self was all in both, you looked no higher. Such fasting commends none to God; yo...
Zechariah 7:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Questions About Fasting ( Zechariah 7:1-6 ). There may be a contrast intended here between those who had come from Babylon seeking news about the Branch, bringing gold and silver for his crown, wh...
Zechariah 7:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] The Didactic part. Replies to questions relative to fasts observed by the Jews, but which they supposed no longer binding after restoration to prosperity. Fourth ] Two years, near...
Zechariah 7:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Zechariah 7:1 . 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; God's prophets were no...
Zechariah 7:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Zechariah 7:1 . In the fourth year of Darius Hystaspes, in the ninth month, the end of November, a deputation went from Babylon to Jerusalem, a long journey in the beginning of winter, to enquir...
Zechariah 7:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me? Rebuke of mere ceremonies God had, through successive ages, exhorted the Jews to true repentance, and condemned their dissimulation, that they might not...
Zechariah 7:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 1-8:23 Part II . THE ANSWER TO A QUESTION CONCERNING THE OBSERVANCE OF CERTAIN FASTS . Zechariah 7:1-38 § 1. A deputation comes from Bethel to ask...
Zechariah 7:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Question Proposed
Zechariah 7:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 29:22 ; 1 Corinthians 10:31 ; 1 Corinthians 11:20 ; 1 Corinthians 11:21 ; 1 Corinthians 11:26-29 ; 1 Samuel 16:7 ; Colossians 3:17 ; Deuteronomy 12:7 ; Deuteronomy 14:26 ; Hose...
Zechariah 7:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For yourselves — I was as little minded by you in your fasts, as in your feasts.

Zechariah 7:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Zechariah 7:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Zechariah 7:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Zechariah 7:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Zechariah 7:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Zechariah 7:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Zechariah 7:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Zechariah 7:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Zechariah 7:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Zechariah 7:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Zechariah 7:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Zechariah 7:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Zechariah 7:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Zechariah 7:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zechariah 7:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zechariah 7:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes