Zechariah 7:1-3

The People’s Hard Hearts

Now it happened that in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is ^aChislev. 2 And the town of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and ¹their men to ²^aentreat the favor of Yahweh, 3 speaking to the ^apriests, who belong to the house of Yahweh of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the ^bfifth month ¹and abstain, as I have done these many years?”