5Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
Zechariah 7 pivots from the prophet's night visions to a pointed prophetic sermon. A delegation from Bethel arrives to ask whether the national fasts commemorating Jerusalem's destruction should continue now that rebuilding has begun. The Lord's reply, delivered through Zechariah
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