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Zechariah 7:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Zechariah 7:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 [a]Bethel-sarezer sent Regem-melech and his men to entreat the favor of the Lord 3 [b]and to ask the priests in the house of the Lord, and the prophets, “Should I continue to mourn and to fast in the fifth month, as I have been doing for these many years?”
4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me:
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- Zechariah 7:2 Bethel-sarezer: a city about twenty km north of Jerusalem. The prophets: Haggai and Zechariah.
- Zechariah 7:3 The fast of the fifth month was for the anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem; the fast of the seventh month was for the assassination of Gedaliah (see Jer 41:1-2).
