<t /><p class="bodytext">On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month <i>Shebati>, in Darius&#8217; second year,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the eighth month of Darius&#8217;<n id="1" /> second year,<n id="2" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to the prophet Zechariah,<n id="3" /> son of Berechiah son of Iddo, as follows:p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In King Darius&#8217; fourth year, on the fourth day of <i>Kislevi>, the ninth month,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to Zechariah.

by asking both the priests of the temple<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lord who rules over allsc> and the prophets, &#8220;Should we weep in the fifth month,<n id="2" /> fasting as we have done over the years?&#8221;