Zechariah 7:1-3

New Living Translation

A Call to Justice and Mercy

7 On December 7^[a] of the fourth year of King Darius’s reign, another message came to Zechariah from the Lord. ²The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech,^[b] along with their attendants, to seek the Lord’s favor. ³They were to ask this question of the prophets and the priests at the Temple of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies: “Should we continue to mourn and fast each summer on the anniversary of the Temple’s destruction,^[c] as we have done for so many years?”

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Footnotes

7:1 Hebrew On the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This event occurred on December 7, 518 B.c.; also see note on 1:1.
7:2 Or Bethel-sharezer had sent Regemmelech.
7:3 Hebrew mourn and fast in the fifth month. The Temple had been destroyed in the fifth month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar (August 586 B.c.); see 2 Kgs 25:8.