Zechariah 7:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 7

⁹Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

Zechariah 7:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 6:8
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Psalms 82:2-4
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. …
Proverbs 21:3
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Jeremiah 7:5
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Deuteronomy 10:18-19
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Anger Citizens Commandments Conscience Conscientiousness Cruelty Deafness

Commentary

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

(vv. 8-14)

What was said Zech. 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 their sins when they asked with great preciseness whether they should continue their fasts. This prophet had before put them in mind of their fathers’ disobedience to the calls of the prophets, and what was the consequence of it (Z…

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

(vv. 9)

9. speaketh--implying that these precepts addressed to their ancestors were the requirements of Jehovah not merely then, but now. We must not only not hurt, but we must help our fellow men. God is pleased with such loving obedience, rather than with empty ceremonies.