4Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-6)Here is, I. The foundation of Zechariah’s ministry; it is laid in a divine authority: The word of the Lord came to him . He received a divine commission to be God’s mouth to the people and with it instructions what to say. He received of the Lord that which also he delivered unto them. The word of the Lord was to him ; it came in the evidence and demonstration of the Spirit, as a real thing, and n...
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