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96701 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 919.7 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Zechariah 7:3 ): Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years. Observe, (1.) What had been their past practice, not only during …
96702 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 919.9 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Zechariah 7:5 ): You fasted and mourned. They were not chargeable with the omission or neglect of the duty, though it was displeasing to the body (thy fasts were …
96703 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 919.10 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Zechariah 7:7 ): “ Should you not hear the words which the Lord has cried by the former prophets ? Yes, that you should have done on your fast-days; it was not enough …
96704 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 919.11 (Matthew Henry)
… Zechariah 7:7; that they should have heard the words of the former prophets, is here enlarged upon, for warning to these hypocritical enquirers, who continued …
96705 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 919.12 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Zechariah 7:9, 7:10 ), because the very same things were required of them now. “Thus does the Lord of hosts speak to you now, and thus he did speak to your fathers, saying …
96706 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 919.13 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Zechariah 7:11, 7:12 ), setting forth the stubbornness of that carnal mind which is enmity against God, and is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed …
96707 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 919.14 (Matthew Henry)
… , Zechariah 7:13. As he cried to them in their prosperity to leave their sins, and they would not hear, but persisted in their iniquities, so they cried to him in …
96708 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 920.3 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Zechariah 7:12 ) now turns against her adversaries. I am now jealous for her with great fury, and can no more bear to have her abused in her afflictions than I could …
96709 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 920.5 (Matthew Henry)
… of. (7.) That childish youthful sports shall be confined to the age of childhood and youth. It is pleasing to see the boys and girls playing in the streets, but it …
96710 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 920.6 (Matthew Henry)
… 8:7 ): “ I will save my people from the east country, and from the west; I will save them from being lost, or losing themselves, in Babylon, or in Egypt, or in any other country …
96711 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 920.7 (Matthew Henry)
V. That God would renew his covenant with them, would be faithful to them and make them so to him: They shall be my people and I will be their God. That is the foundation …
96712 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 920.15 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Zechariah 7:9, 7:10 ) this prophet presses upon them from the consideration of the mercy promised: “Leave it to God, to perform for you what he has promised, in his …
96713 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 920.17 (Matthew Henry)
… , Zechariah 7:3. Those of them that fasted in hypocrisy had their doom in the foregoing chapter, but those that in sincerity humbled themselves before God, and …
96714 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 920.19 (Matthew Henry)
… , Revelation 7:9 .
96715 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 921.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 9:7 ), and a promise of mercy to God’s people, in their protection, Zechariah 9:8. II. A prophecy of their righteous King, the Messiah, and his coming, with a description …
96716 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 921.3 (Matthew Henry)
… 17:7, 17:8, At that day shall a man look to his Maker. It may be read thus, for the Lord has an eye upon man, and upon all the tribes of Israel; he is King of nations as well …
96717 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 921.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , Ecclesiastes 7:12. By her vast trade she has heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets, that is, she has an abundance of them, heaps of …
96718 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 921.7 (Matthew Henry)
III. God next contends with the Philistines, with their great cities and great lords, that bordered southward upon Israel.
96719 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 921.10 (Matthew Henry)
… 9:7; as a promise, (1.) That God would take away the sins of these nations— their blood and their abominations, their cruelties and their idolatries. God will part …
96720 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 921.12 (Matthew Henry)
… 9:7; as intimating, (1.) That thus God would deliver his people from their bloody adversaries, who hated them, and to whom they were an abomination, when they were …