Discovery BoxZechariah 7:3 
Context7:3 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
Context7:7 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
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.”
