A Call for Justice and Mercy

7 ^(A)In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is ^(B)Chislev.

Report from Jerusalem

1 The words of ^(A)Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.

Now it happened in the month of ^(B)Chislev, ^(C)in the twentieth year, as I was in ^(D)Susa the citadel,

A Call to Return to the Lord

1 In the eighth month, ^(A)in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet ^(B)Zechariah, the son of ^(C)Berechiah, son of ^(D)Iddo, saying,

^14 (A)And the elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by decree of the God of Israel and ^(B)by decree of Cyrus and ^(C)Darius and ^(D)Artaxerxes king of Persia; ¹⁵ and this house was finished on the third day of the ^(E)month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

Blessings for a Defiled People

^10 (A)On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, ^(B)in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet,

Zerubbabel Chosen as a Signet

²⁰ The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai ^(A)on the twenty-fourth day of the month,