Zachariæ 7:12

Nova Vulgata

Et cor suum posuerunt adamantem, ne audirent legem et verba, quae misit Dominus exercituum in spiritu suo per manum prophetarum priorum, et facta est indignatio magna a Domino exercituum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et cor suum posuerunt ut adamantem, ne audirent legem, et verba qu� misit Dominus exercituum in spiritu suo per manum prophetarum priorum : et facta est indignatio magna a Domino exercituum.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et cor suum posuerunt ut adamantem, ne audirent legem, et verba qu� misit Dominus exercituum in spiritu suo per manum prophetarum priorum: et facta est indignatio magna a Domino exercituum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

their hearts: Nehemiah 9:29, Job 9:4, Isaiah 48:4, Jeremiah 5:3, Ezekiel 2:4, Ezekiel 3:7-9, Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 36:26

lest: Psalms 50:17, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Isaiah 6:10, Matthew 13:15, Mark 4:12, Luke 8:12, John 3:19, John 3:20, Acts 28:27, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

sent: Nehemiah 9:30, Acts 7:51, Acts 7:52, 1 Peter 1:11, 1 Peter 1:12, 2 Peter 1:21

the former: Heb. the hand of the former, Zechariah 7:7

therefore: 2 Chronicles 36:16, Jeremiah 26:19, Daniel 9:11, Daniel 9:12, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:13 - General Exodus 7:14 - Pharaoh's Exodus 8:15 - he hardened Exodus 32:9 - a stiffnecked Deuteronomy 9:6 - a stiffnecked Job 41:24 - as hard Proverbs 1:24 - I have called Isaiah 30:9 - will not Isaiah 46:12 - ye stouthearted Jeremiah 3:3 - thou refusedst Jeremiah 17:23 - they obeyed Jeremiah 25:4 - ye Jeremiah 34:14 - but Jeremiah 42:21 - but Jeremiah 44:3 - of their Jeremiah 44:5 - they Ezekiel 3:9 - adamant Amos 6:12 - horses Matthew 13:5 - General Matthew 18:35 - from Matthew 19:8 - because Matthew 21:32 - repented Romans 2:5 - But after Hebrews 3:8 - Harden

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone,.... The word here used is translated a "diamond" in Jeremiah 17:1 and it is said to be harder than a flint, Ezekiel 3:9. The Jewish writers say g it is a worm like a barley corn, so strong as to cut the hardest stones in pieces; Moses (they say) used it in hewing the stones for the two tables of the law, and in fitting the precious stones in the ephod; and Solomon in cutting the stones for the building of the temple; and is so hard that it cannot be broken by iron: and as hard is naturally the heart of man, and which becomes more so by sinning, and obstinate persisting in it, that nothing can remove the hardness of it but the powerful and efficacious grace of God: as hard as the adamant is, it is to be softened by the blood of a goat, as naturalists says h; so the blood of Christ sprinkled on the heart, and a sense of forgiveness of sin by it, will soften the hardest heart:

lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath seat in his Spirit by the former prophets; the words of reproof, admonition, caution, and exhortation, which Jeremiah and others were sent to deliver to them, under the influence of the Spirit of God:

therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts; which brought the Chaldeans upon them, who carried them captive into Babylon.

g Misn. Sota, c. 9. sect. 12. Pirke Abot. c. 5. sect. 5. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. Kimchi in 1 Reg. vi. 7. Jarchi in Isa. v. 6. h Pausan. Arcadica, sive l. 8. p. 485. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 37. c. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Harder than adamant - The stone, whatever it be, was hard enough to cut ineffaceable characters : it was harder than flint . It would cut rocks; it could not be graven itself, or receive the characters of God.

This is the last sin, obduracy, persevering impenitence, which “resisted the Holy Spirit” Acts 7:51. and “did despite to the Spirit of grace” Hebrews 10:29. Not through infirmity, but of set purpose, they hardened themselves, lest “they should convert” Isaiah 6:10 and be healed. They feared to trust themselves to God’s word, lest He should convert them by it.

Lest they should hear the law and the words which the Lord God sent by His Spirit by the hand of the former prophets - The Holy Spirit was the chief agent; “by His Spirit;” the inspired prophets were His instruments; by the hand of. Nehemiah confesses the same to God: “Thou didst protest to them by Thy Spirit by the hand of Thy prophets” Nehemiah 9:30. Moses was one of the greatest prophets. The law then may be included, either as delivered by Moses, or as being continually enforced by all the prophets. Observe the gradations:

(1) The words of God are not heard.

(2) The restive shoulder is shown; people turn away, when God, by the inner motions of His Spirit or by lesser chastisements, would bring them to the yoke of obedience. Osorius: “They would not bear the burden of the law, whereas they willingly bore that most heavy weight of their sins.”

(3) Obduracy. Osorius: “Their adamantine heart could be softened neither by promises nor threats.” Therefore nothing remained but the great wrath, which they had treasured to themselves against the day of wrath. And so Zechariah returns to that, wherewith his message and visions of future mercy began, the great wrath which fell upon their fathers Zechariah 1:7.

Osorius: “‘I sought not,’ He says, ‘for your tears; I enjoined not bitterness of sorrow; but what, had they been done, the calamity, for which those tears were meet, had never befallen you. What was it which I admonished you formerly by the former prophets to recall you from sin? What I bid you by Zechariah now. This I preach, admonish, testify, inculcate upon you. ‘“

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 7:12. Made their hearts as an adamant stone — שמיר shamir may mean the granite. This is the hardest stone with which the common people could be acquainted. Perhaps the corundum, of which emery is a species, may be intended. Bochart thinks it means a stone used in polishing others. The same name, in Hebrew, applies to different stones.