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Zechariah 1:5
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Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Your fathers, where are they? and the Prophets, doe they liue for euer?
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Your ancestors are dead, and those prophets didn't live forever.
"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
your fathers, where are they? and doe the Prophets liue for euer?
"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Where are your forefathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Where are your ancestors now? Not even prophets live forever.
"Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
"Your ancestors are gone, and those prophets did not live forever.
Your fathers, where are they? And my prophets, do they live for ever?
Your ancestors and those prophets are no longer alive.
"Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
What is nowe become of your forefathers? & do the prophetes liue for euer?
Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will they live for ever?
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?
Your fathers, where [are] they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
"As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?
"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
"Where are your ancestors now? They and the prophets are long dead.
"Where are your fathers now? And the men who spoke for Me, do they live forever?
Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Your fathers, where are they? and, the prophets, to times age-abiding, do they live?
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always?
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live for ever?
Your fathers -- where [are] they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?
What is now become of youre forefathers and the prophetes? are they yet still alyue?
"And where are your ancestors now? Dead and buried. And the prophets who preached to them? Also dead and buried. But the Message that my servants the prophets spoke, that isn't dead and buried. That Message did its work on your ancestors, did it not? It woke them up and they came back, saying, ‘He did what he said he would do, sure enough. We didn't get by with a thing.'"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 14:10-12, Psalms 90:10, Ecclesiastes 1:4, Ecclesiastes 9:1-3, Ecclesiastes 12:5, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Acts 13:36, Hebrews 7:23, Hebrews 7:24, Hebrews 9:27, 2 Peter 3:2-4
Reciprocal: Genesis 48:21 - Behold Deuteronomy 18:22 - if the thing Joshua 24:33 - died 1 Samuel 9:6 - all that he saith 1 Kings 16:34 - General 2 Kings 13:14 - he died Ezra 9:7 - Since the days Psalms 49:9 - That he Jeremiah 9:14 - which Jeremiah 25:5 - Turn Jeremiah 36:28 - General Lamentations 3:42 - thou Lamentations 5:7 - and are John 6:49 - and are John 8:52 - Abraham
Cross-References
And God clepide the firmament, heuene. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the secounde dai.
And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the thridde dai.
And the euentid and the morwetid was maad, the fourthe dai.
And the euentid and the morwetid was maad, the fyuethe dai.
And God seiy alle thingis whiche he made, and tho weren ful goode. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the sixte day.
in alle the daies of erthe, seed and ripe corn, coold and heete, somer and wyntir, nyyt and dai, shulen not reste.
The dai tellith out to the dai a word; and the nyyt schewith kunnyng to the nyyt.
The dai is thin, and the niyt is thin; thou madist the moreutid and the sunne.
Thou hast set derknessis, and nyyt is maad; alle beestis of the wode schulen go ther ynne.
Y am the Lord, and noon other God is; fourmynge liyt, and makynge derknessis, makynge pees, and fourmynge yuel; Y am the Lord, doynge alle these thingis.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Your fathers, where [are] they?.... They are not in the land of the living; they perished by the sword of the Chaldeans, or died in captivity:
and the prophets, do they live for ever? meaning either the false prophets, as Hananiah and Shemaiah, Jeremiah 28:17 or the true prophets of the Lord; and the words may be considered as a prevention of an objection the people might make, taken from their prophets dying in common with their fathers; and so the Targum paraphrases them, "and if you should say, the prophets, do they live for ever?" which is followed by Jarchi, and embraced by many interpreters: the answer is, it is true they died; but then their words live, and have had their full accomplishment.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Your fathers, where are they? - The abrupt solemnity of the question seems to imply an unexpected close of life which cut short their hopes, plans, promises to self. “When they said, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them” 1 Thessalonians 5:3. Yet not they only but the prophets too, who ministered God’s Word to them, these also being human beings, passed away, some of them before their time as people, by the martyr’s death. Many of them saw not their own words fulfilled. But God’s word which they spake, being from God, passed not away.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 1:5. Your fathers, where are they? — Israel has been destroyed and ruined in the bloody wars with the Assyrians; and Judah, in those with the Chaldeans.
The prophets, do they live for ever? — They also, who spoke unto your fathers, are dead; but their predictions remain; and the events, which have taken place according to those predictions, prove that God sent them.
