Zechariah 7:7 (BSB)

Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”

From Zechariah 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Zechariah 7:7

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Zechariah 7:1-14: 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.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Zechariah 7:1-7: 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...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Zechariah 7:7: And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying. Giving him orders to repeat what the former prophets had said, and to urge the same things on the people which they had before rejected, the rejection of which had issued in their ruin. And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Zechariah 7:7: Should ye not hear the words--rather, "Should ye not do the words," as their question naturally was as to what they should do (Zac 7:3); "hearing" is not mentioned till Zac 7:12. The sense is, It is not fasts that Jehovah requires of you, but that ye should keep His precepts given to you at the time when Jerusalem was in its integrity.