1It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.

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

2The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat the Lord's favor,

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

3and to speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"

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

4Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,

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Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 10:16

5"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

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

6When you eat, and when you drink, do 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

7Aren't these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the Negev and the lowland were inhabited?'"

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

8The word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,

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9"Thus has the Lord of hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness 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

10Do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

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

11But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

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

12Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

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

13It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said the Lord of hosts;

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

14"but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

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