Zechariah 7:4

4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me;

Zechariah 7:4 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 7:4

Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying.
] Upon the sending of this embassy, and upon putting this question.

Zechariah 7:4 In-Context

2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Share'zer and Reg'em-mel'ech and their men, to entreat the favor of the LORD,

3 and to ask the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, "Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?"

4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me;

5 "Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

6 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?