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class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/zechariah/7.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Obedience Better than Fasting</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Zech-7-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now in the fourth year of King Darius it came to pass <i>that</i> the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> came to Zechariah, on the fourth <i>day</i> of the ninth month, Chislev, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>when <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span><i>the people</i> sent <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>Sherezer, with Regem-Melech and his men, <i>to</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>the house of God, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>to pray before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><i>and</i> to ask the priests who <i>were</i> in the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month and <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>fast as I have done for so many years?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts came to me, saying, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh <i>months</i> during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me—for Me? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink <i>for yourselves?</i> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><i>Should you</i> not <i>have obeyed</i> the words which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”</span></p> <h3> Disobedience Resulted in Captivity</span></h3><p><span class="text Zech-7-8"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> came to Zechariah, saying, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Zech-7-9">‘Execute true justice,</span><br /><span class="text Zech-7-9">Show <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>mercy and compassion</span><br /><span class="text Zech-7-9">Everyone to his brother.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,</span><br /><span class="text Zech-7-10">The alien or the poor.</span><br /><span class="text Zech-7-10">Let none of you plan evil in his heart</span><br /><span class="text Zech-7-10">Against his brother.’</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“But they refused to heed, shrugged<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span> their shoulders, and stopped<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span> their ears so that they could not hear. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore it happened, <i>that</i> just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so they called out and I would not listen,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-22965a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Zechariah 7:2">Zechariah 7:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>they,</i> cf. v. <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Zech.7.5" href="/passage/?search=Zech.7.5&version=NKJV">5</span></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22965b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Zechariah 7:2">Zechariah 7:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sar-Ezer</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22965c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Zechariah 7:2">Zechariah 7:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Bethel</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22965d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Zechariah 7:2">Zechariah 7:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>to entreat the favor of</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22966e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Zechariah 7:3">Zechariah 7:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>consecrate myself</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22970f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Zechariah 7:7">Zechariah 7:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Negev</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22972g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Zechariah 7:9">Zechariah 7:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>lovingkindness</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22974h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Zechariah 7:11">Zechariah 7:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>gave a stubborn</i> or <i>rebellious shoulder</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22974i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Zechariah 7:11">Zechariah 7:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>made their ears heavy</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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