Zechariah 1:4
1:4 “Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, ‘The Lord who rules over all says, “Turn now from your evil wickedness,”’ but they would by no means obey me,” says the Lord.
Zechariah 7:3
7:3 by asking both the priests of the temple 1 of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, “Should we weep in the fifth month, 2 fasting as we have done over the years?”
Zechariah 7:7
7:7 Should you not have obeyed the words that the Lord cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem 3 was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah 4 were also populated?
1 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 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 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
4 sn The Shephelah is the geographical region between the Mediterranean coastal plain and the Judean hill country. The Hebrew term can be translated “lowlands” (cf. ASV), “foothills” (NAB, NASB, NLT), or “steppes.”