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In the fourth year of Darius the king, the LORD's word came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, Kislev.
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The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech, along with his men, to seek the LORD's favor,
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saying to the priests who were in the house of the LORD of heavenly forces and to the prophets: "Should I weep in the fifth month and abstain as I have done for a number of years?"
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Then the word of the LORD of heavenly forces came to me:
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Say to all the land's people and to the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and the seventh month for these past seventy years, did you fast for me?