Zechariah 7:5

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Summary

Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

When

Isaiah 58:5

Seventy

Zechariah 7:3

Zechariah 1:12

Jeremiah 25:11

Did

General references

Amos 5:25

Bible References

When

"Is this the kind of fast that I have chosen, merely a day for a person to humble himself? Is it merely for bowing down one's head like a bulrush, for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is this what you call a fast, an acceptable day to the LORD?

Seventy

and to speak to the priests assigned to the Temple of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies along with the prophets, asking, "Am I to go about mourning, denying myself throughout the fifth month, as I have these many years?"

And the angel of the LORD replied, "LORD of the Heavenly Armies, how long will it be until you show mercy to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah, with whom you have been angry for these past seventy years?"

This entire land will be a desolation and a waste, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Did

And when you eat and drink, you're eating and drinking for your own benefit, aren't you?

"How do your voluminous sacrifices benefit me?" the LORD is asking. "I've had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don't enjoy the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.

"Look! You fast only for quarreling, and for fighting, and for hitting with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice heard on high.

In the same way, let your light shine before people in such a way that they will see your good actions and glorify your Father in heaven."

So whenever you give to the poor, don't blow a trumpet before you like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they will be praised by people. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward!

"They do everything to be seen by people. They increase the size of their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments.

The one who observes a special day, observes it to honor the Lord. The one who eats, eats to honor the Lord, since he gives thanks to God. And the one who does not eat, refrains from eating to honor the Lord; yet he, too, gives thanks to God.

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

He died for all people, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the one who died and rose for them.

Whatever you do, work at it wholeheartedly as though you were doing it for the Lord and not merely for people.

General references

"Was it to me that you brought offerings and gifts in the desert for 40 years, house of Israel?