Zechariah 7:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Zechariah 7:6 —

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Cross-References

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1 Corinthians 11:20-21
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. …
Hosea 8:13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
1 Corinthians 11:26-29
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. …
Deuteronomy 14:26
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

This occasional sermon, which the prophet preached, and which is recorded in this and the next chapter, was above two years after the former, in which he gave them an account of his visions, as appears by comparing the date of this (Zech. 7:1), in the ninth month of the fourth year of Darius, with the date of that (Zech. 1:1), in the eighth month of the second year of Darius; not that Zechariah wa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. did not ye eat for yourselves?--literally, “Is it not ye who eat?” that is, it is not unto Me and My glory. It tends no more to My glory, your feasting than your fasting.