Matthew Poole Commentary - Zechariah 7:5 - 7:5

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Zechariah 7:5 - 7:5


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Speak unto all the people, i.e. either by their messengers who came in their name, or to all the Jews that were at Jerusalem.



Of the land; by which it seems to be not the loiterers in Babylon, but the returned in Judea, that sent.



And to the priests: some of these perhaps doubted; and others might overvalue and dote on these voluntary services, and needed, as well as deserved, a reproof.



When ye fasted and mourned: who prescribed this your fast? and since you needs would, (as it was at liberty you might fast and mourn,) who was better for it? or did you do it to please me, when you displeased me by other, your sinful courses?



In the fifth month: see Zec_7:3.



And seventh; for the murder of Gedaliah, slain by Ishmael, Jer_41:1.



Even those seventy years; so many they were since Gedaliah’s death to this time of inquiry, which is made now as many years after the return as Gedaliah was slain after the beginning of the captivity.



Did ye at all fast unto me? whatever was in it, there was very little in it from me, no command, no honour; as you ordered it, you pleased yourselves in it, not me; you wept more for the inconveniences of the thing than the sinfulness of it. Had you fasted to me, you would have abstained more from sin, which I forbade, than from meats, which I did not forbid.



Even to me; as if God had said, I put it once more to you, did you indeed fast to me?