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The Punishment Fits the Sin
Commentators widely agree that this verse demonstrates a principle of divine reciprocity. Because the people refused to listen when God called to them through His prophets, God, in turn, refused to listen when they cried out in distress. Scholars like Spurgeon and Calvin note this is not an arbitrary punishment, but a just and fitting consequence for their persistent deafness to His word.
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Zechariah
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Albert Barnes
On Zechariah 7:13
18th Century
Theologian
And it came to pass - that is, this which God had said: As He cried and they heard not, so shall they cry and I will not hear, saith the…
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 7:13
19th Century
Preacher
The punishment of sin seems to be according to the sin itself. If men will not hear God, neither will God hear them.
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John Calvin
On Zechariah 7:13
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet sets forth more fully the dreadfulness of this punishment — that they groaned and complained in vain, for God was deaf to their complai…
John Gill
On Zechariah 7:13
17th Century
Pastor
Therefore it is come to pass, [that] as he cried The Lord by the former prophets called them to repentance and obedience:…
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…