And they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the Lord, and Zadok as priest.
Zechariah 7:6 - English Standard Version 2016 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And when you ate and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? American Standard Version (1901) And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? Common English Bible When you ate and drank, weren’t you the ones eating and drinking? Catholic Public Domain Version And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink only for yourselves? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? |
And they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the Lord, and Zadok as priest.
You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, or wearied you with frankincense.
‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.
As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord, and their sacrifices shall not please him. It shall be like mourners’ bread to them; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the Lord.
“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?
Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”