Zechariah 8:16
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 520-518 BC
WHEN
520-518 BC
dated by the text itself
WHO RULED
- Darius I king of Persia 522-486 BC
SOURCES
- date — Zechariah 1:1 dates itself by the eighth month of the second year of Darius.
- Darius I — Behistun Inscription, written at his order in three languages; Herodotus III
SEE ALSO
- Ephesians 4:25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
- Zechariah 7:9 “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
- Psalms 15:2 He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
- Deuteronomy 10:12-13 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and…
- Luke 3:8-14 Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up…
- Proverbs 12:17 He who speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.
- Proverbs 12:19 Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
- Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and…
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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