Zechariah 7:2

1 Kings 13:6; 1 Samuel 13:12; Exodus 32:11; Ezra 6:10; Ezra 7:15-23; Ezra 8:28-30; Isaiah 60:7; Jeremiah 26:19; Zechariah 6:10; Zechariah 8:21

Related Commentaries of Zechariah 7:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When they held sent unto the house of God - Rather, “And Bethel sent;” that is, the inhabitants of Bethel sent. “The house of God” is nowhere in...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

When (b) they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD, (b) That is, the rest of the people tha...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

they had sent unto the house of GOD , &c.: or, when Sherezer had sent (and Regem-melech and his men) to Bethel", &c. Beth-el had already bee...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He says first, that messengers were sent to entreat the face of Jehovah. Here by the word entreating or praying, the Prophet means also sacri...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD, When they had sent - Sherezer and Regem-me...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

When they had sent, &c.— Who it was that sent appears from Zechariah 7:5 where God commands the prophet to answer all the people and the p...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD, When they had sent unto the house...
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 l...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer] RV 'now they of Beth-el had sent Sherezer.' The v. is difficult. Some scholars suggest the tra...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

When they had sent... before the Lord. — Better, Then [the people of] Bethel [such as] Sherezer and Regemmelech, and his men, sent to entreat...
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, t...
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...
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...
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 we...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When they had sent unto the house of God ,.... It is, in the Hebrew text, "when he sent Bethel"; which some, as Kimchi observes, take to be the name...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD, Ver. 2. When they had sent ] They? who?...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The word of the Lord came unto Zechariah , &c. In this and the next chapter is contained a third and distinct revelation made to Zechariah, abou...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Enquiry Concerning Fasting; Hypocrisy Reproved. B. C. 520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When they, either the captives which still continued in Babylon, or the Jews returned out of captivity, but who dwelt in the country at distance fr...
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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Further Prophecies of Zechariah ( Zechariah 7:1 to Zechariah 8:23 ) These prophecies occur approximately two years after the previous ones demon...
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 re...
Scofield Reference Notes

they "They," that is, of the captivity in Babylon. The mission of these Jews of the captivity concerned a fast day instituted by the Jews in c...
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...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer, and Regemmelech, and their men to pray before the Lord The left ones in captivity It must b...
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-...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Question Proposed
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

when they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech and their men to pray before the Lord, rather, Bethel, that is, the citizens of th...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

When they — The captives who still continued in Babylon. The house of God — The temple, which now half built began to be frequented. Regem — melech...

² When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to praya before the LORD,

Related Commentaries of Zechariah 7:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Zechariah 7:2