Zechariah 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?”

De 17:9-11; De 33:10; 2Ki 25:8,9; Ne 8:9-11; Ne 9:1-3; Ec 3:4; Isa 22:12,13; Jer 52:12-14; Eze 44:23,24; Ho 4:6; Joe 2:17; Hag 2:11; Zec 7:5; Zec 8:19; Zec 12:12-14; Mal 2:7; Mt 9:15; 1Co 7:5; Jas 4:8-10

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).