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Zechariah 7:4 KJV
Zechariah · chapter 7 · verse 4
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,Zechariah 7:4 · King James Version
Zechariah 7:4 in context
2When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
3And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
4Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
5Speak 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?
6And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- hoststsâbâʼa mass of persons , especially reg. organized forwarH6635 →
- worddâbâra wordH1697 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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This occasional sermon, which the prophet preached, and which is recorded in this and the next chapter, was above two years after the former, in which he gave them an account of his visions, as appears by comparing the date of this (Zac 7:1), in the ninth month of the fourth year of Darius, with the date of that (Zac…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7