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Zechariah 7:5-7
Lexham English Bible
Zechariah 7:5-7
Lexham English Bible
5 “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me? 6 And when you eat and drink, are you not eating and drinking for yourselves? 7 Are not these the words that Yahweh proclaimed through[a] the former prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns[b] were inhabited and at ease, and the Negev[c] and the Shephelah[d] were inhabited?’”
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- Zechariah 7:7 Literally “by the hand of”
- Zechariah 7:7 Literally “her towns around her”
- Zechariah 7:7 The Negev is an arid region south of the Judean hills
- Zechariah 7:7 The Shephelah is a geographical area on the western edge of the Judean hills
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