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Saturday, July 19th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Zechariah 7:4

The word of the Lord who rules over all then came to me,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Impenitence;   Prophecy;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zechariah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fast;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sherezer ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Fasts;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Fasting and Fast-Days;   Haggai;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the word of the Lord of Armies came to me:
Hebrew Names Version
Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
King James Version (1611)
Then came the word of the Lord of hosts vnto me, saying,
King James Version
Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying,
English Standard Version
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:
New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD of armies came to me, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord All-Powerful spoke his word to me, saying,
Amplified Bible
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me (Zechariah), saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then came the word of the Lord of hostes vnto me, saying,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
Contemporary English Version
It was then that the Lord All-Powerful told me to say to everyone in the country, including the priests: For seventy years you have gone without eating during the fifth and seventh months of the year. But did you really do it for me?
Complete Jewish Bible
It was then that this message came to me from Adonai -Tzva'ot:
Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah of hosts came unto me, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
I received this message from the Lord All-Powerful:
George Lamsa Translation
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Good News Translation
This is the message of the Lord that came to me.
Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,
Literal Translation
The Word of Jehovah of Hosts was to me, saying,
American Standard Version
Then came the word of Jehovah of hosts unto me, saying,
Bible in Basic English
Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then came the worde of the Lorde of hoastes vnto me, saying:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
English Revised Version
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
World English Bible
Then the word of Yahweh of Hosts came to me, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,
Update Bible Version
Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts to me, saying,
New King James Version
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
New Living Translation
The Lord of Heaven's Armies sent me this message in reply:
New Life Bible
Then the Word of the Lord of All came to me saying,
New Revised Standard
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh of hosts unto me, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:
Revised Standard Version
Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me;
Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts unto me, saying:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then came the worde of the LORDE of hoostes vnto me, sayenge:
THE MESSAGE
God -of-the-Angel-Armies gave me this Message for them, for all the people and for the priests: "When you held days of fasting every fifth and seventh month all these seventy years, were you doing it for me? And when you held feasts, was that for me? Hardly. You're interested in religion, I'm interested in people.

Contextual Overview

1 In King Darius' fourth year, on the fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah. 2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the Lord 's favor 3 by asking both the priests of the temple of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, "Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?" 4 The word of the Lord who rules over all then came to me, 5 "Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me—for me, indeed? 6 And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?'" 7 Should you not have obeyed the words that the Lord cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah were also populated?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lord of hosts: Isaiah 10:16

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 6:3
So the Lord said, "My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years."
Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them."
Genesis 6:13
So God said to Noah, "I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.
Genesis 6:17
I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
Genesis 7:10
And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:17
The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
Genesis 7:21
And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying. Upon the sending of this embassy, and upon putting this question.


 
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