Zechariah 7:3
by asking the priests of the house of the Lord of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
and to speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
and to speak unto the priests of the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- speak
- Deuteronomy 17:9–11; Deuteronomy 33:10; Ezekiel 44:23, 24; Hosea 4:6; Haggai 2:11; Malachi 2:7
- Should
- Zechariah 7:5; Nehemiah 8:9–11; Nehemiah 9:1–3; Ecclesiastes 3:4; Isaiah 22:12, 13; Joel 2:17; Matthew 9:15; James 4:8–10
- fifth
- This was a fast for the burning of the temple, as that of the seventh month was for the death of Gedaliah; and seeing that the city and temple were in part rebuilt, they wished to know whether they should continue the observance of them.
- Zechariah 8:19; 2 Kings 25:8, 9; Jeremiah 52:12–14
- separating
- Zechariah 12:12–14; 1 Corinthians 7:5