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Zechariah 7:3-5
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3 by asking both the priests of the temple[a] of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies and the prophets, “Should we weep in the fifth month,[b] fasting as we have done over the years?” 4 The message of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies then came to me, 5 “Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh[c] months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me—for me, indeed?

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:3 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
  2. Zechariah 7:3 sn This lamentation marked the occasion of the destruction of Solomon’s temple on August 14, 586 b.c., almost exactly 70 years earlier (cf. 2 Kgs 25:8).
  3. Zechariah 7:5 tn The seventh month apparently refers to the anniversary of the assassination of Gedaliah, governor of Judah (Jer 40:13-14; 41:1), in approximately 581 b.c.
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