Zechariah 7:10

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁸Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, ⁹"This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another. ¹⁰Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.'¹¹But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. ¹²They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law and the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts. ¹³Therefore just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts. ¹⁴But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them, so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned a pleasant land into a desolation."

Bible Verse Review
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oppress: Exodus 22:21-24, Exodus 23:9, Deuteronomy 24:14-18, Deuteronomy 27:19, Psalms 72:4, Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 22:23, Proverbs 23:10, Proverbs 23:11, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:23, Jeremiah 5:28, Jeremiah 22:15-17, Ezekiel 22:7, Ezekiel 22:12, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 4:1, Amos 5:11, Amos 5:12, Micah 2:1-3, Micah 3:1-4, Zephaniah 3:1-3, Malachi 3:5, Matthew 23:14, 1 Corinthians 6:10, James 5:4

imagine: Psalms 21:11, Psalms 36:4, Psalms 140:2, Proverbs 3:29, Proverbs 6:18, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 18:18, Micah 2:1, Mark 7:21-23, James 1:14, James 1:15, 1 John 3:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:22 - General Deuteronomy 23:16 - thou shalt not Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert Ezekiel 18:8 - hath executed Ezekiel 18:12 - oppressed Zechariah 8:17 - let James 2:6 - Do

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth, to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

Genesis 7:4
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."

Genesis 7:17
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

Genesis 7:20
The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

Job 22:16
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a river.

Luke 17:27
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor,.... Such as have no husband to provide for them, nor father and mother to care for them, and are in a strange land, where they have no friends or acquaintance, and are poor, and can not help themselves. Laws of this kind were frequently inculcated among the Jews; see Deuteronomy 24:14:

and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart; thoughts of evil are sinful, and forbidden by the law of God, as well as actions, which agrees with our Lord's sense of the law, Matthew 5:22, see Leviticus 19:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And oppress not - He had commanded positive acts of love; he now forbids every sort of unlove. “He that oppresseth the poor,” Solomon had said, “reproacheth his Maker. The widow, the orphan, the stranger, the afflicted” Proverbs 24:31, are, throughout the law, the special objects of God’s care. This was the condition which God made by Jeremiah; “If ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; if ye oppress not the stranger the fatherless and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt, then will I cause you to dwell in this, place” Jeremiah 7:5-7. It was on the breach of the covenant to set their brethren free in the year of release, that God said; “I proclaim a liberty for you to the sword, to the pestilence and to the famine, and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth” Jeremiah 34:17.

And let none of you imagine - that is, “devise, as, by Micah, God retorted the evil upon them. They “devised evil on their beds; therefore, behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks” Micah 2:1, Micah 2:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 7:10. Evil against his brother in your heart. — Do not indulge an unfavourable opinion of another: do not envy him; do not harbour an unbrotherly feeling towards him.