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Zechariah 8:16

Zechariah 8:16
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour,.... See Gill on Zac 7:10 hatred without a cause was a governing vice under the second temple, and Jarchi says was the cause of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

These are the things that ye shall do - He exhorts them to the same duties, to which the former prophets had exhorted their fathers, Zec 7:9-10, and, as before, first positively to truth and peace;…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Speak ye every man the truth - See Zac 7:9, Zac 7:10.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Zechariah 8:9-17

God, by the prophet, here gives further assurances of the mercy he had in store for Judah and Jerusalem. Here is line upon line for their comfort, as before there was for their conviction. These…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the judgment of truth and peace Rather, truth and the judgment of peace judge ye, as in R. V. margin. Jerusalem would indeed "be called a city of truth" (Zec 8:3), when alike in the private…