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Zechariah 7:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Zechariah 7:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 7[a]
Must I Continue to Do Penance? 1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev. 2 [b]Bethel-sarezer sent Regem-melech and his men to entreat the favor of the Lord 3 [c]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?”
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- Zechariah 7:1 The time is November, 518 B.C. Twenty years have passed since the first group of Jews made the return.
- 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).
