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Zechariah 7:1-3
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Hypocritical Fasting Condemned

7 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 Chislev.(A) 2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord(B) 3 and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I mourn and practice abstinence in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”(C)

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Zechariah 7:1-3
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7 And then,[a] in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Kislev. 2 And the people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech, and their[b] men, to entreat the favor[c] of Yahweh, 3 saying to the priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts[d] and to the prophets, “Should I mourn in the fifth month and keep myself separate[e] as I have done for these many years?”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:1 Literally “and it happened”
  2. Zechariah 7:2 Hebrew “his”
  3. Zechariah 7:2 Literally “the face”
  4. Zechariah 7:3 Literally “priests who are for the house of Yahweh of hosts”
  5. Zechariah 7:3 Or “abstain”; some interpret this as a reference to fasting
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