Zech.7.7

Zechariah 7:7

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Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?

A Call to Justice and Mercy

Cross References

Isaiah 1:16

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Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Meaningless Offerings

God Has Had Enough

Jeremiah 7:5

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For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

Jeremiah’s Message at the Temple Gate

Jeremiah 7:23

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But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

Judah’s Idolatry Persists

Jeremiah 13:19

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The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

Captivity Threatened

Jeremiah 17:26

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And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the Lord.

Restoring the Sabbath

Jeremiah 22:21

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I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

A Warning about Jehoiakim

Jeremiah 32:44

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Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord.

A Promise of Restoration

Jeremiah 44:4

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Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Judgment on the Jews in Egypt

Zechariah 1:4

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Be 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.

A Call to Repentance

Zechariah 7:6

KJV GOD

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

A Call to Justice and Mercy

Zechariah 7:8

KJV

¶ And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying,

A Call to Justice and Mercy

Zechariah 7:12

KJV GOD Holy Spirit

Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.