Verse Zechariah 7:12. Made their hearts as an adamant stone] שמיר shamir may mean the granite. This is the hardest stone with which the common people could be acquainted. Perhaps the corundum, of which emery is a species, may be intended. Bochart thinks it means a stone used in polishing others. The same name, in Hebrew, applies to different stones.
HARDER THAN ADAMANT - The stone, whatever it be, was hard enough to cut ineffaceable characters : it was harder than flint . It would cut rocks; it could not be graven itself, or receive the character...
II. QUESTIONS CONCERNING CERTAIN FASTS CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The question (Zechariah 7:1) _ 2. The reproof (Zechariah 7:4) 3. The lessons of the past (Zechariah 7:8)...
ZECHARIAH 7:8 is probably an amplification of the original address by a later hand and likewise Zechariah 8:1. Both are much like Zechariah 1:2....
THE LAW. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20, &c.), App-92. IN. by. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9....
_an adamant_ perhaps _diamond_, "so called from its cutting and perforating (the original meaning of the word being a _sharp point_, or _thorn_), as the point of a _stylus_was made of diamonds, Jeremi...
THE SECOND ANSWERING STATEMENT. Zechariah 7:8-14 RV. And the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah, saying, Thus hath Jehovah of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgement, and show kindness and compa...
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from...
WARNINGS FROM THE PAST Chs.7 and 8 go together, and were spoken on a date (fourth day of the ninth month in the fourth year of Darius) two years later than the series of visions described above, viz....
HATH SENT] better, 'had sent.' 14. The prophet wishes to emphasise the truth, that to obey God's word is the supreme demand of religious life: cp. 1 Samuel 15:22. The rejection of God's message in da...
GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 7 V1 The word of the *LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the 9th month (called) Kislev. This happened in the fourth year...
(8-14) The prophet implies that true fasting is to loose the bands of wickedness and leave off oppression. But Israel had adopted quite the opposite course, and therefore God, in accordance with Deute...
ADAMANT STONE means a very hard stone; “diamond” is the modern form of the word. “Adamant,” _adhámas,_ meaning in Greek _unconquerable,_ was originally applied to “steel” (_Hesiod_). LXX. explain the...
וְ לִבָּ֞ם שָׂ֣מוּ שָׁמִ֗יר מִ֠ שְּׁמֹועַ אֶת
Zechariah 8:1 "THE SEED OF PEACE" Zechariah 7:1; Zechariah 8:1 THE Visions have revealed the removal of the guilt of the land, the restoration of Israel to their standing before God, the revival of...
THE PENALTY OF INJUSTICE AND CRUELTY Zechariah 7:1-14 During their captivity the Jews observed four feasts. That of the 10th month recalled the first enclosure of Jerusalem by the enemies' lines; of...
The third message of Zechariah was uttered nearly two years later. It was a fourfold answer to an inquiry made by the people concerning the necessity for observing certain fasts. The history of these...
Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his (m) spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath...
_As, &c. Hebrew, "of Samir;" a stone used to polish jewels. Septuagint, "disobedient."_...
And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying 9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 10 And oppress not the w...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...
_DEAF EARS AND HARD HEARTS_ ‘They refused to hearken … they made their hearts as an adamant stone.’ Zechariah 7:11 I. I CAN ‘REFUSE TO HEARKEN’ TO GOD IN JESUS CHRIST. WHAT AN AWFUL POWER IS THIS W...
He then comes to the heart, _They made_, he says, _their heart adamant_, or the very hardest stone. Some render it steel, and others flint. It means sometimes a thorn; but in this place, as in Ezekiel...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, 9, AND 10. The prophecy, from chapter 7 to the end of the book, has for its special object the introduction of the Messiah in Israel, with the consequen...
YEA, THEY MADE THEIR HEARTS [AS] AN ADAMANT STONE,.... The word here used is translated a "diamond" in Jeremiah 17:1 and it is said to be harder than a flint, Ezekiel 3:9. The Jewish writers say g it...
Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath fro...
_Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts_ Or did speak, that is, to your fathers, and thus he speaks to you now; _Execute true judgment_ I often put your fathers in mind that judgment and mercy were more acce...
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, like the hardest stone, impervious to every impression from without, LEST THEY SHOULD HEAR THE LAW, the books of Moses, AND THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD OF...
AN APPEAL TO THE PAST...
A QUESTION ANSWERED NEGATIVELY (vv. 1-7) The visions and prophecies of the first six Chapter s are connected with the eighth month of the second year of the reign of Darius (Zechariah 1:1). It is tw...
BY THE: _ Heb._ by the hand of...
8-14 God's judgements upon Israel of old for their sins, were written to warn Christians. The duties required are, not keeping fasts and offering sacrifices, but doing justly and loving mercy, which...
THEY MADE THEIR HEARTS AS AN ADAMANT: though the heart of itself is far from taking impressions, and receiving kindly the law of God, yet these desperate sinners think it is too pliable, they study ho...
Zechariah 7:12 made H7760 (H8804) hearts H3820 flint H8068 hear H8085 (H8800) law H8451 words H1697 LORD...
FURTHER PROPHECIES OF ZECHARIAH (ZECHARIAH 7:1 TO ZECHARIAH 8:23) These prophecies occur approximately two years after the previous ones demonstrating that Zechariah's ministry continued. It would ap...
GOD CALLS THE PEOPLE TO RIGHTEOUS LIVING RATHER THAN RELIGIOUS ZEAL AND WARNS OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSAL (ZECHARIAH 7:8). What Zechariah is saying is now expressed in more depth. Zechariah 7:8 ‘...
Zechariah 7:1. _And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;_ God's prophets were not al...
CONTENTS: The mission from Babylon, and Jehovah's answer to the question of fasts. Why prayer was not answered. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Darius, Zechariah, Sherezer, Regemmelich. CONCLUSION: Wh...
Zechariah 7:1. _In the fourth year of Darius_ Hystaspes, _in the ninth month,_ the end of November, a deputation went from Babylon to Jerusalem, a long journey in the beginning of winter, to enquire i...
_Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone _ THE DISEASE AND CURE OF THE HARD HEART A man does not become profligate or altogether wicked at once. One vice makes way for another. The people in...
ZECHARIAH 7:1 From Fasts to Feasts. This section mentions fasts that commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem, which will be transformed into feasts celebrating its renewal. The renewal gives the peop...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 7:12 THE LAW AND THE WORDS of the FORMER PROPHETS were the two means God used to communicate his will to his people. Yet earlier generations “refused to pay attention” (v....
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZECHARIAH 7:8.] God requires obedience, not formal fastings. The disobedience of the fathers brought judgment upon the nation. ZECHARIAH 7:9. EXECUTE] Admonitions which have special r...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-8:23 Part II. THE ANSWER TO A QUESTION CONCERNING THE OBSERVANCE OF CERTAIN FASTS. ZECHARIAH 7:1 § 1. A deputation comes fr
Now some men came to Zechariah with a question. While they were in Babylon they had been observing a couple of days of fasting. The day... they commemorated the day that the temple was destroyed by th...
1 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 1:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16;...
In his spirit — By his holy spirit....