Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
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Gill's Exposition
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink,.... Either at common meals, or at their festivals:
did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? merely and only for their own refreshment and…
Barnes' Notes
Speak unto all the people of the land - They of Bethel had spoken as one man, as Edom said to Israel, “Thou shalt not pass by me” Num 20:18; and “the men of Israel said to the Hivite; Perhaps thou…
Adam Clarke
When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth - month - This they did in the remembrance of the burning of the temple, on the tenth day of that month; and on the seventh month, on the third of which month…
This occasional sermon, which the prophet preached, and which is recorded in this and the next chapter, was above two years after the former, in which he gave them an account of his visions, as…
The Answer. First Section
5. seventh month This fast appears to have been observed during the captivity, because in the seventh month "the murder of Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon made governor…
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