Zechariah 1:5

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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

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  • Job 14:10-12 : 10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he? 11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry; 12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
  • Ps 90:10 : 10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
  • Eccl 1:4 : 4 One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them. 2 Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it. 3 This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • John 8:52 : 52 The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:
  • Heb 7:23-24 : 23 And it is true that there have been a great number of those priests, because death does not let them go on for ever; 24 But this priest, because his life goes on for ever, is unchanging.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
  • 2 Pet 3:2-4 : 2 So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles. 3 Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things, 4 Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.

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    4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

  • Zech 1:6
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    6 But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5 These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

  • Jer 25:4-5
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    4 And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing;

    5 Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever:

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52 Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

  • Mal 1:6
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    6 A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?

  • Joel 1:2-3
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    2 Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

    3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

  • Jer 7:25
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    25 From the day when your fathers came out of Egypt till this day, I have sent my servants the prophets to you, getting up early every day and sending them:

  • Jer 37:19
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    19 Where now are your prophets who said to you, The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land?

  • Jer 44:9-10
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    9 Have you no memory of the evil-doing of your fathers, and the evil-doing of the kings of Judah, and the evil-doing of their wives, and the evil which you yourselves have done, and the evil which your wives have done, in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

    10 Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

  • Jer 16:11-12
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    11 Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;

    12 And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:

  • Jer 35:15
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    15 And I have sent you all my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them, saying, Come back, now, every man from his evil way, and do better, and go not after other gods to become their servants, and you will go on living in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but your ears have not been open, and you have not given attention to me.

  • Lam 5:7
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    7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

  • Jer 26:5
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    5 And give ear to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, getting up early and sending them, though you gave no attention;

  • Neh 9:34
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    34 And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

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    4 Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?

  • Zech 1:2
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    2 The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:

  • Isa 8:19
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    19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?

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    31 The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

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  • Jer 2:8-9
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    8 The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

    9 For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

  • Dan 9:6
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    6 We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.

  • Luke 11:47
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    47 A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.

  • Jer 7:7
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    7 Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.

  • Lam 5:20
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    20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

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    5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

  • 2 Chr 6:31
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    31 So that they may give you worship, walking in your ways, as long as they are living in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • Jer 23:37
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    37 This is what you are to say to the prophet, What answer has the Lord given to you? and, What has the Lord said?

  • Jer 17:15
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    15 See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

  • Jer 5:13
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    13 And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:13
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    13 And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets.

  • Jer 2:30-31
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    30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

    31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

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    4 For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:

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    7 For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.

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    27 Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

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    26 Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?

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    6 For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

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    1 At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places:

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    4 Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

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    16 Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 13:12
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    12 Then their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God who came from Judah had gone.