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 doings, so hath he dealt with us.
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Gill's Exposition
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,…
Barnes' Notes
Only My words and My decrees - Which God spake by them, “did not they overtake them?” (as Psa 2:7; Zep 2:2). Pagan reminiscence of God’s justice acknowledged , “Rarely hath punishment with limping…
Adam Clarke
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.
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…
Cambridge Bible
my statutes or decrees. The word may be used here, as it is in Zep 2:2; Psa 2:7 (in both which places it is rendered decreein A. V.), of some punishment, which God had purposed or decreed, and…
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