“The Lord who rules over all says, ‘Ask the priests about the law.

“Ask the following questions to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the remnant of the people:

Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the Lord’s temple.

‘Think carefully about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, think about it.