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Zechariah 7:11 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. "

Zechariah 7:11

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9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:

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Proverbs 29:1

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"He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."

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Nehemiah 9:29

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"And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear."

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From This Chapter

Zechariah 7:1

"And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;"

Zechariah 7:2

"When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,"

Zechariah 7:3

"And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, 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 came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,"

Zechariah 7:5

"Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast"

Zechariah 7:6

"And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink"
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