Zechariah 7:3

7:3 by asking both the priests of the temple ¹  of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, “Should we weep in the fifth month, ²  fasting as we have done over the years?”

Jeremiah 52:12-15

52:12 On the tenth ³  day of the fifth month, ⁴  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁵  who served ⁶  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 52:13 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. 52:14 The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem. 52:15 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took into exile some of the poor, ⁷  the rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the craftsmen.

¹ tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

² 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).

³ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

⁴ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁵ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

⁶ tn Heb “stood before.”

⁷ tn Heb “poor of the people.”