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?”

[7:3]  ¹ tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[7:3]  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).