Zechariah 7:9

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: Execute true judgment - See Isaiah 58:6, Isaiah 58:7; JeremiahJer 7:23; Micah 6:8, chap. 8.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thus spake the Lord - that is, through the former prophets, for he goes on to speak of their rejection in the past. “Execute true judgment.” He r...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, (k) Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother: (k) He shows that they...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Zechariah 7:8-14 is probably an amplification of the original address by a later hand and likewise Zechariah 8:1-17 . Both are much like Zechar...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Execute. judgment. Note the Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6). Hebrew. mishpat . shephotu . true judgment judge ye. Compare Isaiah 58:6 ; I...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, (71) saying, The judgment of truth judge, and kindness and mercies show, every one to his brother. We have see...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: Thus speaketh the Lo...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(8-14) The prophet implies that true fasting is to loose the bands of wickedness and leave off oppression. But Israel had adopted quite the opposite...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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

And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying 9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying ,.... The same things as he had before; for the things following are ever in force, and always to be attende...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: Ver. 9. Execute true judg...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts Or did speak, that is, to your fathers, and thus he speaks to you now; Execute true judgment I often put your fat...
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

Wilful Disobedience of Israel; Consequences of Disobedience. B. C. 520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thus speaketh, or did speak, i.e. to your fathers, and thus he doth speak to you now. Execute true judgment: God required former judges, and he r...
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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God Calls The People To Righteous Living Rather Than Religious Zeal and Warns of the Consequences of Refusal ( Zechariah 7:8-14 ). What Zechariah...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Zechariah 7:8-14 .] God requires obedience, not formal fastings. The disobedience of the fathers brought judgment upon the nation...
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

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 c...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An Appeal to the Past
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, rather, "Thus spake Jehovah," in addressing the children of Judah in former days, before the exile, saying, Execute...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:24 ; Deuteronomy 10:18 ; Deuteronomy 10:19 ; Deuteronomy 15:7-14 ; Deuteronomy 16:18-20 ; Ezekiel 45:9 ; Hosea 10:12 ; Hosea 10:13 ;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Spake — To your fathers.

⁹ Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Executeb true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

Related Commentaries of Zechariah 7:9

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Zechariah 7:9