Zechariah 7:2-3

7:2 Now the people of Bethel ¹  had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the Lord’s favor 7:3 by asking both the priests of the temple ²  of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, “Should we weep in the fifth month, ³  fasting as we have done over the years?”

¹ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

² tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

³ 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).