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Zechariah 8:17 KJV
Zechariah · chapter 8 · verse 17
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.Zechariah 8:17 · King James Version
Zechariah 8:17 in context
15So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
16These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
17And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
18And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
19Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- neighbourrêaʻan associateH7453 →
- imaginechâshabproperly, to plait or interpenetrateH2803 →
- heartslêbâbthe heartH3824 →
- falsesheqeran untruthH8267 →
- saithnᵉʼuman oracleH5002 →
- noneʼîysha man as an individual or a male personH376 →
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God, by the prophet, here gives further assurances of the mercy he had in store for Judah and Jerusalem. Here is line upon line for their comfort, as before there was for their conviction. These verses contain strong encouragements with reference to the difficulties they now laboured under. And we may observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-17