Zacharias 7:6

6 And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?

Zacharias 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 7:6

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink
Either at common meals, or at their festivals: did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?
merely and only for their own refreshment and pleasure, and not for the glory of God; though that ought to be the principal end in eating and drinking, ( 1 Corinthians 10:31 ) .

Zacharias 7:6 In-Context

4 And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,

5 Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though ye fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh (yea, behold, these seventy years) have ye at all fasted to me?

6 And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?

7 Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, and the hill country and the low country was inhabited?

8 And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying,