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Now, ⌞the people from⌟ Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech with their men [a] to ask the Lord for a blessing. They asked the priests from the house of the Lord of Armies as well as the prophets, “Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done for so many years?”

Then the Lord of Armies spoke his word to me. He said,

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  1. 7:2 Or “Bethel Sharezer sent Regem Melech with his men.”

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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