Teks -- Zechariah 1:6 (NET)

1:6 But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers? Then they paid attention and confessed, ‘The Lord who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.’”

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Wesley: Zec 1:6 - My words

The dreadful menaces which I spake.

Wesley: Zec 1:6 - My statutes

The decreed judgments which I resolved to execute on them, which by my prophets I proclaimed.

Wesley: Zec 1:6 - Take hold

Overtake as a pursuing enemy overtakes, and seizeth on his enemy.

Wesley: Zec 1:6 - They returned

By this it should seem that Zechariah gave them time to consider what answer to give.

Wesley: Zec 1:6 - So hath he dealt

It is true, as God said he would do, so he hath done against us.

JFB: Zec 1:6 - statutes

My determined purposes to punish for sin.

JFB: Zec 1:6 - which I commanded my servants

Namely, to announce to your fathers.

JFB: Zec 1:6 - did they not take hold

That is, overtake, as a foe overtakes one fleeing.

JFB: Zec 1:6 - they returned

Turning from their former self-satisfaction, they recognized their punishment as that which God's prophets had foretold.

JFB: Zec 1:6 - thought to do

That is, decreed to do. Compare with this verse Lam 2:17.

JFB: Zec 1:6 - our ways

Evil ways (Jer 4:18; Jer 17:10; Jer 23:2).

Clarke: Zec 1:6 - Did they not take hold of your fathers?

Did they not take hold of your fathers? - Every thing happened according to the predictions, and they were obliged to acknowledge this; and yet they would not turn from their evil way.

Calvin: Zec 1:6 - NO PHRASE

He then immediately adds, But my words and my statutes ¹⁵ which I have committed to my Prophets, have they not laid hold on your fathers? We have seen that he made a concession in the last verse; but here God expressly declares what I have stated — that though men vanish, or are hence removed after a short time, yet heavenly truth is ever firm, and retains its own power. But the Prophet uses another form of expression, My words, he says, which I have committed to my servants, the Prophets, have they not laid on ¹⁶ your father? that is, “ought the remembrance of the punishment, by which I intended to teach you, and your children, and your grandchildren, that ye might not provoke my wrath as your fathers did, to be lost by you? Since the ye see the effect of my doctrine in your fathers, why do ye not consider, that as I am always the same, my words cannot possibly be in vain at the present day, or be without effect?” We now see how clearly the Prophet distinguishes between the word of God and the condition of men; for God does not declare what is empty, nor give utterance to words which produce no effect; but he executes whatever he has committed to his Prophets.

He then adds, They returned and said, ¹⁷ As Jehovah of hosts had purposed to do to us on account of our ways and our works, so he hath done. Added here is a confession, which ought to have perpetually stimulated the Jews, while they saw that the obstinacy of their fathers had been subdued by the scourges of God. It is indeed true, that though they been sharply chastised, many of them did not yet really repent. God however extorted from them the confession that they were justly punished. Even the ungodly then had been constrained to give glory to God, and to confess that they were justly treated as guilty; but their children became immediately forgetful — was this a stupidity capable of being excused? He at the same time indirectly warns posterity that they might not imitate the negligence of their fathers, who would not have repented had they not been severely chastised; but that they might, on the contrary anticipate the judgment of God. We then see why the Prophet mentions that the Jews, who had been severely treated, freely confessed that they had been chastised by the hand of God; but we must notice the words.

He says, that the fathers had returned. Though their repentance was not sincere, yet God intimates that such was their punishment that it drew from them the confession that is here mentioned. What then could their posterity mean? or how could they become so audaciously mad against God, when they saw that their fathers and their obstinacy had been, as it were, broken down by the severe strokes by which God had smitten them? He then subjoins, and said, As Jehovah hath prepared to do. They confessed that they suffered evils not through chance, but that the purpose of God was thus fulfilled, which they had previously despised and almost derided. They further confessed, that they justly suffered; and they referred to their works and to their course of life. Since, then, the father had made this confession, who had hardened themselves long in their sins, their posterity were wholly without excuse in going on still to their own ruin, in containing impenitent, though warned by examples so memorable. This is the import of the passage. It now follows —

TSK: Zec 1:6 - my words // did // take hold of // they returned // Like // thought // according to our ways

my words : Isa 55:1

did : Num 23:19, Num 32:23; 2Ch 36:17-21; Isa 44:26; Jer 26:15, Jer 44:28; Eze 12:25-28; Dan 9:11, Dan 9:12; Mat 24:35

take hold of : or, overtake, Deu 28:15, Deu 28:45; Jer 12:16; Amo 9:10; 1Th 5:4

they returned : Job 6:29; Mal 3:18

Like : Lam 1:18, Lam 2:17, Lam 4:11, Lam 4:12; Eze 37:11

thought : Num 33:56; Jer 23:20

according to our ways : Deu 28:20; Isa 3:8-11; Jer 4:4, Jer 18:8-11; Eze 20:43; Hos 9:15, Hos 2:6-11

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Poole: Zec 1:6 - But my words // Did they not take hold of your fathers? // They returned and said // So hath he dealt with us

But my words , the dreadful menaces which I spake by my prophets, and my statutes, the decreed judgments which my provoked justice resolved to execute on them, which I commanded my servants the prophets; which by my prophets as my heralds I proclaimed and published.

Did they not take hold of your fathers? overtake as a pursuing enemy overtakes and seizeth on his enemy and spoileth him; have not my judgments thus taken hold both on your fathers and on you?

They returned and said: by this it should seem that Zechariah gave them time to consider what answer to give.

So hath he dealt with us it is true, as God said he would do, so he hath done against us, our fathers, our families, our cities and temples. God’ s words have not failed, they died not, though our fathers did. This may be an abstract of their repentance.

Haydock: Zec 1:6 - Fathers // Returned

Fathers. They felt their effects. (Haydock) ---

Returned; being converted by the sight of God's judgments, Osee iv. 1., and 2 Esdras i. 6.

Gill: Zec 1:6 - But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets // did they not take hold of your fathers // and they returned and said // Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doing, so hath he dealt with us

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets,.... That is, the predictions which he ordered his prophets to declare in his name, that their fathers should die by the sword, or famine, or pestilence, or be carried captive, which he purposed in himself, and threatened them with:

did they not take hold of your fathers? overtake them, seize upon them, and have their accomplishment in them? not one thing has failed, or come short of being fulfilled, of all that was determined, or said should be done:

and they returned and said; that is, as many of them as perished not, but were carried captive; at least many of them, who either were thoroughly converted, and turned from their evil, or however in appearance: and who were obliged to own,

Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doing, so hath he dealt with us: as he purposed, so he performed, and that with great justice and equity, being what their evil ways and doings righteously deserved; see Isa 14:24.