6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
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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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