Zechariah 1:12 New English Translation
12 The angel of the Lord then asked, “O Lord of Heaven’s Armies,[a] how long before you have compassion on Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah that you have been so angry with for these seventy years?”[b]
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- Zechariah 1:12 sn Note that here the angel of the Lord is clearly distinct from the Lord who rules over all himself.
- Zechariah 1:12 sn The seventy years refers to the predicted period of Babylonian exile, a period with flexible beginning and ending points depending on the particular circumstances in view (cf. Jer 25:1; 28:1; 29:10; Dan 9:2). Here the end of the seventy years appears to be marked by the completion of the temple in 516 b.c., exactly seventy years after its destruction in 586.
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