Zechariah 7:1-3

Legacy Standard Bible

The People’s Hard Hearts

7 Now it happened that in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is ^(A)Chislev. ² And the town of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and ^[a]their men to ^[b](B)entreat the favor of Yahweh, ³ speaking to the ^(C)priests, who belong to the house of Yahweh of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the ^(D)fifth month ^[c]and abstain, as I have done these many years?”