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Zechariah 7:2-4
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Zechariah 7:2-4
New Living Translation
2 The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech,[a] along with their attendants, to seek the Lord’s favor. 3 They 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,[b] as we have done for so many years?”
4 The Lord of Heaven’s Armies sent me this message in reply:
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- 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.
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