1And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Casleu.

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Nehemiah 1:1, Nehemiah 1:1, Zechariah 1:1, Ezra 6:14, Ezra 6:15

2When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:

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Zechariah 8:21, Zechariah 8:21, Jeremiah 26:19, Jeremiah 26:19, 1 Samuel 13:12

3To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify myself as I have now done for many years?

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Zechariah 8:19, Zechariah 8:19, Malachi 2:7, James 4:8, James 4:10

4And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:

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Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 10:16

5Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

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Isaiah 58:4, Isaiah 58:6, Zechariah 1:12, Isaiah 58:4, Isaiah 58:6

6And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

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1 Corinthians 11:20, 1 Corinthians 11:21, 1 Corinthians 11:20, 1 Corinthians 11:21, Hosea 8:13

7Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy, both itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants towards the south, and in the plain?

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Jeremiah 17:26, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 1:20, Jeremiah 17:26, Isaiah 1:16

8And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying:

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9Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.

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Micah 6:8, Micah 6:8, Psalms 82:2, Psalms 82:4, Psalms 82:2

10And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.

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Jeremiah 5:28, Jeremiah 5:28, Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 22:23, Psalms 21:11

11But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.

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Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:29, Jeremiah 8:5, Hosea 4:16, Jeremiah 8:5

12And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from Lord of hosts.

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2 Chronicles 36:16, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Ezekiel 11:19, 2 Chronicles 36:16

13And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.

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Proverbs 1:24, Proverbs 1:28, Proverbs 1:24, Proverbs 1:28, Jeremiah 14:12

14And I dispersed them throughout all kingdoms, which they know not: and the land was left desolate behind them, so that no man passed through or returned: and they changed the delightful land into a wilderness.

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Deuteronomy 28:64, Deuteronomy 28:33, Deuteronomy 28:64, Deuteronomy 28:33, Deuteronomy 4:27