Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
Chapter 7 Lecture One Hundred and Forty-sixth Zechariah 7:1-3 1. And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; 1. Et factus est (datus est,) anno quarto Darii regis, sermo Iehovae ad Zachariam, quarta die mensis noni Chisleu; 2.
Commenting on Zechariah 7:1-14
This occasional sermon, which the prophet preached, and which is recorded in this and the next chapter, was above two years after the former, in which he gave them an account of his visions, as appears by comparing the date of this (Zac 7:1), in the ninth month of the fourth year of Darius, with the date of that (Zac 1:1), in the eighth month...
Commenting on Zechariah 7:1-7
When they had sent unto the house of God,.... It is, in the Hebrew text, "when he sent Bethel"; which some, as Kimchi observes, take to be the name of a man that was sent along with those after mentioned; but the Targum and the Septuagint render it, "when", or "after he had sent unto Bethel": not the place so called in Jacob's time; but...