Zacharias 7:1

1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias on the fourth of the ninth month, which is Chaseleu.

Zacharias 7:1 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 7:1

And it came to pass, in the fourth year of King Darius,
&c.] Near two years after the foundation of the temple was laid, ( Haggai 2:10 Haggai 2:18 ) and near two years before it was finished, ( Ezra 6:15 ) when the work was going forward, and there was a great deal of reason to believe it would be completed: [that] the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, in the fourth
[day] of the ninth month, [even] in Chisleu:
which answers to part of our October, and part of November.

Zacharias 7:1 In-Context

1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias on the fourth of the ninth month, which is Chaseleu.

2 And Sarasar and Arbeseer the king and his men sent to Bethel, and to propitiate the Lord,

3 speaking to the priests that were in the house of the Lord Almighty, and to the prophets, saying, The holy offering has come in hither in the fifth month, as it has done already many years.

4 And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,

5 Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though ye fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh (yea, behold, these seventy years) have ye at all fasted to me?