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Zechariah 7:2-3

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7:2 Now the people of Bethel 1  had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the Lord’s favor 7:3 by asking both the priests of the temple 2  of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, “Should we weep in the fifth month, 3  fasting as we have done over the years?”

1 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

2 tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

3 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).



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