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Zechariah 7:6

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— ‘When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— And, when ye used to eat and when ye used to drink, was it not, of your own accord, ye did eat, and, of your own accord, ye did drink?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh [months]—even these seventy years—did ye keep the fast [to] Me—Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— And when ye did eate, and when ye did drinke, did ye not eate for your selues, and drinke for your selues?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And when ye did eat, and when ye did drinke, did not ye eat [for your selues], and drinke [for your selues]?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And when you did eat and when you did drink, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
And when x3588
(3588) Complement
כִּי
kiy
{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
ye did eat, 398
{0398} Prime
אָכַל
'akal
{aw-kal'}
A primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
and when x3588
(3588) Complement
כִּי
kiy
{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
ye did drink, 8354
{8354} Prime
שָׁתָה
shathah
{shaw-thaw'}
A primitive root; to imbibe (literally or figuratively).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
did not x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
ye x859
(0859) Complement
אַתָּה
'attah
{at-taw'}
A primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you.
eat 398
{0398} Prime
אָכַל
'akal
{aw-kal'}
A primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively).
z8802
<8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Active (See H8814)
Count - 5386
[for yourselves], and drink 8354
{8354} Prime
שָׁתָה
shathah
{shaw-thaw'}
A primitive root; to imbibe (literally or figuratively).
z8802
<8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Active (See H8814)
Count - 5386
[for yourselves]?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Zechariah 7:6

_ _ did not ye eat for yourselves? — literally, “Is it not ye who eat?” that is, it is not unto Me and My glory. It tends no more to My glory, your feasting than your fasting.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Zechariah 7:1-7.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Zechariah 7:6

For yourselves — I was as little minded by you in your fasts, as in your feasts.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Zechariah 7:6

And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat (h) [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?

(h) Did you not eat and drink for your own benefit and necessity, and so likewise you abstained according to your own imaginings, and not after the command and direction of my Law.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
did not ye eat for:
or, be not ye they that did eat for, etc.
Deuteronomy 12:7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
Deuteronomy 14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
1 Chronicles 29:22 And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed [him] unto the LORD [to be] the chief governor, and Zadok [to be] priest.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it? ... I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.
Hosea 8:13 They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat [it; but] the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
Hosea 9:4 They shall not offer wine [offerings] to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices [shall be] unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 11:20-21 When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is not to eat the Lord's supper. ... For in eating every one taketh before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
1 Corinthians 11:26-29 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. ... For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Dt 12:7; 14:26. 1S 16:7. 1Ch 29:22. Jr 17:9. Ho 8:13; 9:4. 1Co 10:31; 11:20, 26. Col 3:17.

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