Zechariah 1:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

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  • Job 14:10-12 : 10 But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up, 12 So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.
  • Ps 90:10 : 10 The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their strength is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
  • Eccl 1:4 : 4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 For all this I considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 Also when they are afraid of what is high, and fears are in the way, and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper is a burden, and desire fails: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
  • John 8:52 : 52 Then the Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keeps my word, he shall never taste death.
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:
  • Heb 7:23-24 : 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue by reason of death: 24 But he, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
  • 2 Pet 3:2-4 : 2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

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  • Zech 1:4
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    4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD.

  • Zech 1:6
    77%

    6But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

  • Jer 25:4-5
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    73%

    4And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

    5They said, 'Turn now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever:

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

  • Mal 1:6
    72%

    6A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, How have we despised your name?

  • Joel 1:2-3
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    72%

    2Hear this, you elders, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this happened in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

    3Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

  • Jer 7:25
    72%

    25Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

  • Jer 37:19
    72%

    19Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

  • Jer 44:9-10
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    71%

    9Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

    10They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

  • Jer 16:11-12
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    11Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

    12And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one walks after the imagination of his evil heart, so that you do not listen to me.

  • Jer 35:15
    71%

    15I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.

  • Lam 5:7
    71%

    7Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.

  • Jer 26:5
    71%

    5To listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened;

  • Neh 9:34
    71%

    34Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our forefathers kept Your law, nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, which You testified against them.

  • Jer 8:4
    70%

    4Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall and not rise? Shall he turn away and not return?

  • Zech 1:2
    70%

    2The LORD has been very displeased with your fathers.

  • Isa 8:19
    70%

    19And when they say to you, Seek those who have familiar spirits, and wizards that whisper and mutter: should not a people seek their God? for the living to the dead?

  • Jer 5:31
    70%

    31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?

  • Mal 3:7
    70%

    7Even from the days of your fathers you have gone away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, 'In what way shall we return?'.

  • Jer 2:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

    9Therefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

  • Dan 9:6
    70%

    6Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Luke 11:47
    70%

    47Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

  • Jer 7:7
    70%

    7Then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.

  • Lam 5:20
    70%

    20Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long?

  • Hag 1:5
    70%

    5Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • 2 Chr 6:31
    70%

    31That they may fear you, to walk in your ways, as long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • Jer 23:37
    70%

    37Thus you shall say to the prophet, 'What has the LORD answered you?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

  • Jer 17:15
    69%

    15Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now.

  • Jer 5:13
    69%

    13And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:13
    69%

    13Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

  • Jer 2:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

    31O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more to you?

  • Amos 5:4
    69%

    4For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek me, and you shall live:

  • Jer 11:7
    69%

    7For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

  • Isa 43:27
    69%

    27Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against Me.

  • Jer 23:26
    69%

    26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    69%

    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • Jer 8:1
    69%

    1At that time, says the LORD, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

  • Jer 3:4
    69%

    4Will you not from this time call to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?

  • Matt 23:31
    68%

    31Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

  • Acts 3:24
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    24Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

  • Ps 45:16
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    16Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 13:12
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    12And their father said to them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, who came from Judah.