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Zechariah 1:4-6
Evangelical Heritage Version
Zechariah 1:4-6
Evangelical Heritage Version
4 Do not be like your forefathers, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed, “This is what the Lord of Armies says. Return, return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”
But our forefathers did not listen, nor did they pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5 Your forefathers—where are they now? And those prophets—did they go on living indefinitely? 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded to my servants the prophets, caught up with our forefathers, didn’t they?
Then they[a] returned[b] and said, “Because of our ways and our deeds, the Lord of Armies has done to us just as he planned to do to us.”
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- Zechariah 1:6 Because verse 4 says that their forefathers did not repent, it seems that the pronoun they might not refer to the forefathers. Most translations, however, do interpret this line as a reference to a belated repentance of the forefathers and make it the conclusion of the preceding speech. As formatted above, this sentence refers to a repentant response of the people to Zechariah’s message. This forms a parallel with the statement in Haggai 1:12, which says that the people responded favorably when they heard Haggai’s message.
- Zechariah 1:6 Or repented
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