Zechariah 1:5

World English Bible (2000)

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 is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, 12 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
  • Ps 90:10 : 10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
  • Eccl 1:4 : 4 One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them. 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that is 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 yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • John 8:52 : 52 Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
  • Heb 7:23-24 : 23 Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death. 24 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
  • 2 Pet 3:2-4 : 2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior: 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that 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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    4 Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

  • Zech 1:6
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    6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"

  • Jer 2:5
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    5 Thus says Yahweh, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • Jer 25:4-5
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    4 Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear)

    5 saying, Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore;

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7 Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

  • Mal 1:6
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    6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'

  • Joel 1:2-3
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    2 Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

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

  • Jer 7:25
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    25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

  • Jer 37:19
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    19 Where 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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    9 Have 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 committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

    10 They 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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    11 Then you shall tell them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

    12 and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:

  • Jer 35:15
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    15 I 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 don't 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
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    7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

  • Jer 26:5
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    5 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;

  • Neh 9:34
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    34 neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

  • Jer 8:4
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    4 Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?

  • Zech 1:2
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    2 "Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

  • Isa 8:19
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    19 When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

  • Jer 5:31
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    31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

  • Mal 3:7
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    7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Armies. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

  • Jer 2:8-9
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    8 The priests didn't say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and those who handle the law didn't know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

    9 "Therefore I will yet contend with you," says Yahweh, "and I will contend with your children's children.

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    6 neither 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
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    47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

  • Jer 7:7
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    7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.

  • Lam 5:20
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    20 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?

  • Hag 1:5
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    5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

  • 2 Chr 6:31
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    31 that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • Jer 23:37
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    37 You shall say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken?

  • Jer 17:15
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    15 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.

  • Jer 5:13
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    13 The prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them."

  • 2 Kgs 17:13
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    13 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, 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
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    30 "I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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    4 For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;

  • Jer 11:7
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    7 For 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
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    27 Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

  • Jer 23:26
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    26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.

  • Jer 8:1
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    1 At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his 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;

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

  • Matt 23:31
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    31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

  • Acts 3:24
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    24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

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    16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.

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