Zechariah 7:5

The Scriptures 1998

“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months all these seventy years, did you truly fast for Me – for Me?

Cross References

2 Kings 25:23

And all the commanders of the armies, they and their men, heard that the sovereign of Baḇ

2 Kings 25:25

And in the seventh month it came to be that Yishmaʽ

Isaiah 43:23

“You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt offerings, nor have you esteemed Me with your slaughterings. I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, nor wearied you with incense.

Isaiah 58:3

They say, ‘Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our beings, and You took no note?’ “Look, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your labourers.

Jeremiah 25:11

‘And all this land shall be a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the sovereign of Baḇ

Jeremiah 29:10

“For thus said יהוה, ‘When seventy years are completed, at Baḇ

Jeremiah 52:12

And on the tenth of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of sovereign Neḇ

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign I, Dani’ĕ

Hosea 7:14

and did not cry out to Me with their heart when they wailed upon their beds. For grain and new wine they assemble themselves; they turn away from Me.

Zechariah 1:12

And the messenger of יהוה  answered and said, “O יהוה  of hosts, how long would You have no compassion on Yerushalayim and on the cities of Yehuḏ

Zechariah 7:3

speaking to the priests who belonged to the House of יהוה  of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?”

Zechariah 7:4

Then the word of יהוה  of hosts came to me, saying,

Zechariah 7:6

‘And when you ate and when you drank, was it not for those eating and for those drinking?

Zechariah 8:19

“Thus said יהוה  of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth months, are to be joy and gladness, and pleasant appointed times for the house of Yehuḏ

Matthew 23:5

“And they do all their works to be seen by men, and they make their t’fillen wide and lengthen the tzitziyot of their garments,

Matthew 6:16

“And when you fast, do not be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces so that they appear to be fasting to men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.

Matthew 6:2

“Thus, when you do a kind deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do, in the congregations and in the streets, to be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.

Matthew 6:5

“And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the congregations and on the corners of the streets, to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.

1 Corinthians 10:31

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the esteem of Elohim.

2 Corinthians 5:15

and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them, and was raised.

Colossians 3:23

And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Master and not to men,