Zechariah 7:6

6 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink only for yourselves?

Zechariah 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 ) .

Zechariah 7:6 In-Context

4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:

5 Say to all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

6 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink only for yourselves?

7 Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, along with the towns around it, and when the Negeb and the Shephelah were inhabited?

8 The word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying: