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Zechariah 7:5

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7:5 “Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh 1  months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me – for me, indeed?

Zechariah 8:14

Context

8:14 “For the Lord who rules over all says, ‘As I had planned to hurt 2  you when your fathers made me angry,’ says the Lord who rules over all, ‘and I was not sorry,

1 tn The seventh month apparently refers to the anniversary of the assassination of Gedaliah, governor of Judah (Jer 40:13-14; 41:1), in approximately 581 b.c.

2 tn The verb זָמַם (zamam) usually means “to plot to do evil,” but with a divine subject (as here), and in light of v. 15 where it means to plan good, the meaning here has to be the implementation of discipline (cf. NCV, CEV “punish”). God may bring hurt but its purpose is redemptive and/or pedagogical.



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