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Then the people in Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their men to Jerusalem. They came to ask the Lord to help them. They came to the house of the Lord Almighty to speak to the priests and to the prophets. They asked, ‘Should we cry and not eat our food in the fifth month? We have done this for many years.’[a]

The Lord Almighty spoke to me.

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  1. 7:3 These people wanted to be in Jerusalem, but for 70 years they had to live in Babylon.

The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat(A) the Lord(B) by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn(C) and fast in the fifth(D) month, as I have done for so many years?”

Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me:

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