Zechariah 7:9

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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saying: Zechariah 7:7, Zechariah 8:16, Zechariah 8:17, Leviticus 19:15, Leviticus 19:35-37, Deuteronomy 10:18, Deuteronomy 10:19, Deuteronomy 15:7-14, Deuteronomy 16:18-20, Psalms 82:2-4, Proverbs 21:3, Isaiah 58:6-10, Jeremiah 7:5, Jeremiah 7:23, Ezekiel 45:9, Hosea 10:12, Hosea 10:13, Amos 5:24, Micah 6:8, Matthew 23:23, Luke 11:42, James 2:13-17

Execute true judgment: Heb. Judge judgment of truth, Jeremiah 21:12, *marg. John 7:51

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:21 - men Leviticus 10:20 - he was content Proverbs 21:13 - at Proverbs 22:16 - that oppresseth Proverbs 31:9 - General Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Isaiah 1:17 - seek Isaiah 3:5 - the people Isaiah 5:7 - he looked Isaiah 16:3 - execute Jeremiah 7:6 - oppress Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Jeremiah 22:3 - Execute Ezekiel 18:7 - hath not Ezekiel 18:8 - hath executed Hosea 4:2 - swearing Hosea 12:6 - keep Haggai 2:17 - yet Matthew 21:34 - he sent Mark 12:3 - and sent Luke 20:10 - sent 1 Peter 3:8 - having

Cross-References

Genesis 2:19
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 7:6
Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:9
came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded him.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:16
And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will do no harm nor destruction on all My holy mountain," says the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush observe their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:11
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying,.... The same things as he had before; for the things following are ever in force, and always to be attended to, and to be regarded and preferred before anything merely ritual and ceremonial; and especially before the traditions and commandments of men, of which nature the above fasts were:

Execute true judgment; or, "judge judgment e of truth"; this is addressed to the judges of the people, that when any cause came before them between man and man, that they would judge righteously, according to the law of God; and, without respect to persons, pass sentence as the truth of the case required:

and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother; whether in want of food, raiment, or in whatsoever distress, whether of body or mind; which is much more acceptable to God than any legal sacrifices, or outward abstinences and humiliations, Hosea 6:6.

e משפט אמת "judicium veritatis", Montanus, Calvin, Cocceius, Burkius; "jus veritatis", Junius & Tremellius, Tarnovius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thus spake the Lord - that is, through the former prophets, for he goes on to speak of their rejection in the past. “Execute true judgment.” He retains the words of Ezekiel. The injunction itself runs throughout the prophets. “Shew mercy” (as Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 58:6-7; Jeremiah 7:5; Ezekiel 18:8; Hosea 12:6, etc.), that is, tender love, to all; compassion, to the unhappy. Omit no act of love, God so loves the loving. Lap.: “Like Paul to the Romans Romans 13:9, he names only the duties to the neighbor, but understands what relates to God. For the love of our neighbor presupposes the love of God, from which it springs.” Jerome: “After strictness of justice, let mercy to all follow, and specially to brethren, of the same blood and of one faith. Brother and neighbor we ought to account the whole human race, since we are all born of one parent, or those who are of the household of faith, according to the parable of the Gospel, “which willeth us to understand by neighbor, nor our kin, but all men” (Luke 10:30 ff).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 7:9. Execute true judgment — See the parallel texts in the margin. (Isaiah 58:6-7; Jeremiah 7:23; Micah 6:8)