Thematic Bible
Zechariah 7:1 (show verse)
During the fourth year of the reign of King Darius, a message from the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month Kislev.
Zechariah 7:2 (show verse)
The people of Bethel were sending Sharezer, Regem-melech, and their men to pray in the LORD's presence
Zechariah 7:3 (show verse)
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?"
Zechariah 7:4 (show verse)
Then this message from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies came to me:
Zechariah 7:5 (show verse)
"Talk to everyone in the land, as well as to the priests. Ask them, "When you were fasting and mourning during the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, were you really fasting for me?
Zechariah 7:6 (show verse)
And when you eat and drink, you're eating and drinking for your own benefit, aren't you?
Zechariah 7:7 (show verse)
Isn't this what the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets, when a prosperous Jerusalem was inhabited, as were its surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah?'"
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Zechariah 7:8 (show verse)
This message from the LORD came to Zechariah again:
Zechariah 7:9 (show verse)
"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Administer true justice, and show gracious love and mercy toward each other.
Zechariah 7:10 (show verse)
You are not to wrong the widow, orphans, the foreigner, or the poor, and you are not to plan evil against each other.
Zechariah 7:11 (show verse)
But they refused to pay attention, turned their backs, and stopped listening.
Deafness » Spiritual
Desolation » Why desolation comes
ears » Of the wicked » Stopped against God's word
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Ignorance » Of God's word » Wilful
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Hear not the law
Rebellion against God » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to him
Self-will » Exhibited in » Refusing to listen to the messengers of God
Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God
Spiritual » Crowns » Deafness
Desolation » Why desolation comes
ears » Of the wicked » Stopped against God's word
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Ignorance » Of God's word » Wilful
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Hear not the law
Rebellion against God » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to him
Self-will » Exhibited in » Refusing to listen to the messengers of God
Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God
Spiritual » Crowns » Deafness
Zechariah 7:12 (show verse)
They made their hearts hard like a diamond, to keep from obeying the Law and the messages that the LORD of the Heavenly Armies sent by his Spirit through the former prophets.
Adamant » Flint
The call of God » Rejection of, leads to » Temporal judgments
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Hardness (of heart) » Examples of
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Ignorance » Of God's word » Wilful
Message despised » Of the word of God
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Hear not the law
Rejection » Of Christ » Of the word of God
Word » As weapon » Despised
The call of God » Rejection of, leads to » Temporal judgments
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Hardness (of heart) » Examples of
Hearing » Who the lord will not hear
Ignorance » Of God's word » Wilful
Message despised » Of the word of God
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Hear not the law
Rejection » Of Christ » Of the word of God
Word » As weapon » Despised
Zechariah 7:13 (show verse)
Therefore, just as when I cried out and they would not listen, so also they will cry out, and I will not listen,' says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.
Zechariah 7:14 (show verse)
"I will scatter them to all of the nations, which they have not known.'" Now the earth was left desolate after them. As a result, no one came or went because they had turned a pleasant land into a desert.