Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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Gill's Exposition
Your fathers, where are they?.... They are not in the land of the living; they perished by the sword of the Chaldeans, or died in captivity:
and the prophets, do they live for ever? meaning either…
Barnes' Notes
Your fathers, where are they? - The abrupt solemnity of the question seems to imply an unexpected close of life which cut short their hopes, plans, promises to self. “When they said, Peace and safety,…
Adam Clarke
Your fathers, where are they? - Israel has been destroyed and ruined in the bloody wars with the Assyrians; and Judah, in those with the Chaldeans.
The prophets, do they live for ever? - They also,…
Here is, I. The foundation of Zechariah's ministry; it is laid in a divine authority: The word of the Lord came to him. He received a divine commission to be God's mouth to the people and with it…
The lesson conveyed by these two verses, which must be taken together, is the same as that contained in the words of Isaiah (Isa 40:6; Isa 40:8), "All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is…
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