Zechariah 1:6

"But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”"

Key Reflection

Zechariah 1:6 underscores God's unwavering faithfulness and the consequences of Israel's disobedience. Despite warnings through prophets, when God's judgments came, the people acknowledged them as just retribution for their actions, reflecting both divine sovereignty and human accountability.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Only My words and My decrees -Which God spake by them, “did not they overtake them?” (asPsalms 2:7;Zephaniah 2:2). Pagan reminiscence of God’s justice acknowledged , “Rarely hath punishment with limping tread parted with the forerunning miscreant.” “All these curses,” Moses foretells, “shall come upon thee and overtake thee, until thou art destroyed”Deuteronomy 28:45. And they returned to God and said -The history of the Jews in Babylon is omitted in Holy Scripture, except as to His special dealings with Daniel and his three companions.

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