Zechariah 7:8

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor,.... Such as have no husband to provide for them, nor father and mother to care for them, and are in a strange land, where…

Instead of quoting the former prophets, Zechariah gives the substance of their exhortations, as renewed to himself.

What was said Zac 7:7, that they should have heard the words of the former prophets, is here enlarged upon, for warning to these hypocritical enquirers, who continued their sins when they asked with…

The Answer. Second Section

8. the word of the Lord came It is not necessary to suppose that there was a break, or interval of time, between the sections which are introduced by this formula. The…