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Zechariah 1:7

Context
The Introduction to the Visions

1:7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in Darius’ second year, 1  the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:

Zechariah 8:19

Context
8:19 “The Lord who rules over all says, ‘The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth 2  months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.’

1 sn The twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month…in Darius’ second year was February 15, 519 b.c.

2 sn The fasts of the fifth and seventh months, mentioned previously (7:5), are listed here along with the observances of the fourth and tenth months. The latter commemorated the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians on January 15, 588 b.c. (2 Kgs 25:1), and the former the breach of the city walls on or about July 18, 586 b.c. (Jer 39:2-5).



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