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Zechariah 7:11 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. "

Zechariah 7:11

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9 “Thus has the LORD of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

10 Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law and the words which the LORD of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the LORD of Armies.

13 It has come to pass that, as he called and they refused to listen, so they will call and I will not listen,” said the LORD of Armies;

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Jeremiah 17:23

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"But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction."

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Jeremiah 7:24

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"But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward."

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2 Kings 17:14

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"Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck like the neck of their fathers who didn’t believe in the LORD their God."

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Nehemiah 9:29

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"and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear."

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2 Chronicles 24:19

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"Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again to the LORD, and they testified against them; but they would not listen."

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Job 34:27

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"because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,"

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Zechariah 7:1

"In the fourth year of King Darius, the LORD’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev."

Zechariah 7:2

"The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech and their men to entreat the LORD’s favor,"

Zechariah 7:3

"and to speak to the priests of the house of the LORD of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”"

Zechariah 7:4

"Then the word of the LORD of Armies came to me, saying,"

Zechariah 7:5

"“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?"

Zechariah 7:6

"When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?"

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