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

Will this be the fast I shall choose? a day for a man to humble his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and he will place sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast and a day of acceptance to Jehovah.

Seventy

To speak to the priests which were to the house of Jehovah of armies, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself according as I did, how many the years?

And the messenger of Jehovah will answer and say, O Jehovah of armies, how long wilt thou not compassionate Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with whom thou wert very angry this seventy years?

All this land was for a waste, for a desolation, and these nations served the king of Babel seventy years.

Did

And when ye shall eat, and when ye shall drink, are ye not eating, and are ye not drinking?

For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats.

behold, for contention and strife ye will fast, and to strike with the fist of injustice: ye shall not fast as today to cause your voice to be heard on high.

So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.

When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.

And all their works do they, to be seen by men: and make broad their preservatives, and enlarge the border of their garments

He minding the day, minds to the Lord; and he not minding the day, to the Lord he minds not. He eating, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he not eating, to the Lord he eats not, and he gives thanks to God.

Whether therefore ye eat, whether ye drink, or what ye do, do ye all things to the glory of God.

And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

And all, whatever ye do, work ye from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to men;

General references

Did ye bring near to me sacrifices and gifts in the desert forty years, O house of Israel?