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Selected Verse: Zechariah 7:11 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Zec 7:11 |
King James |
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
pulled away the shoulder--literally, "presented a refractory shoulder"; an image from beasts refusing to bear the yoke (Neh 9:29, Margin).
stopped . . . ears-- (Isa 6:10; Jer 7:26; Act 7:57). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
But they gave a backsliding shoulder - Like a restive animal, which would not endure the yoke, dull and stupid as the beasts: as Hosea says, "Israel slideth back like a backsliding heifer" Hos 4:16. Nehemiah confesses the same; "they gave a backsliding shoulder and hardened their neck and would not hear" Neh 9:29.
And made heavy their ears - Fulfilling in themselves what God foretold to Isaiah would be the result of his preaching, "make their ears heavy." The heart, which will not hearken, becomes duller by the outward hearing, as Paul says, "The earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God; but that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected" Heb 6:7-8. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Pulled away - Withdrew their shoulder from the yoke of the law. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Pulled away the shoulder - From under the yoke of the law, like an unbroken or restive bullock in the plough. |
57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
29 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.
7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
29 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.
16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.