Zechariah 7:1

ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 7 The Jews having sent to inquire concerning the set fasts, Malachi 7:1, Zechariah reproveth the hypocrisy of their fasts, Malachi 7:4. They are exhorted by repentance to remove the cause of their calamity, Malachi 7:8. It came to pass; a most usual form of speech, introductory to what shall afterwards be spoken. In the fourth year; when the Jews had now been two years in building the temple, and probably it was in good forwardness. Of king Darius; son of Hystaspes, about A. M, 3487, as Arch. bishop Usher in his Annals. In Chisleu; part of our November and December, when half the time of building the temple was spent.