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The Stubborn Shoulder
Commentators universally highlight the imagery of a stubborn animal to explain Israel's rebellion. Phrases like 'pulled away the shoulder' or 'offered a stubborn shoulder' depict a nation acting like a defiant ox that refuses to accept the yoke of God's law. This was not passive neglect but active, willful resistance.
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Zechariah
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Albert Barnes
On Zechariah 7:11
18th Century
Theologian
But they gave a backsliding shoulder - Like a restive animal, which would not endure the yoke, dull and stupid as the beasts: as Hosea says,…
Charles Ellicott
On Zechariah 7:8–14
19th Century
Bishop
The prophet implies that true fasting is to loose the bands of wickedness and leave off oppression. But Israel had adopted quite the oppos…
Charles Spurgeon
On Zechariah 7:11–12
19th Century
Preacher
And rightly so. When God requires what is so just and so commendable, and people will not yield to it, and will not even hear about it, they deserv…
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John Calvin
On Zechariah 7:11–12
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet here, by referring to the fathers, more sharply reproves the Jews of his age, for he saw that they differed little from their fathers.<…
John Gill
On Zechariah 7:11
17th Century
Pastor
But they refused to hearken. That is, the Jews, before the captivity, refused to give heed to the above exhortations, and…
Matthew Henry
On Zechariah 7:8–14
17th Century
Minister
God's judgments upon Israel in the past for their sins were written to warn Christians. The duties required are not keeping fasts and offering sacr…