Reading for November 14th

Read Zechariah 1.1-6 Zechariah's opening speech.
Zechariah's visions (1.7-6.8) are introduced and concluded (chs. 7-8)
by speeches in which Zechariah urges his listeners to embrace the social responsibilities
and just behavior preached by the prophets before him.
In verse 1 Zechariah's opening and closing speeches (1.1; 7.1),
together with his visions (1.7), are dated.
The second year of Darius (522-486 BCE) is 520 BCE,
the same year in which Haggai preached (Hag 1.1; 2.1, 10).
In verse 4 the former prophets are Zechariah's predecessors
who preached before the fall of Jerusalem.
Zechariah quotes words similar to Jeremiah's (Jer 25.5).
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