Reading for November 25th

Read Zechariah 7.1-14 A charge to live justly.
Zechariah's concluding speech is divided into tow parts: an appeal-with an eye on the past-to create a just society (ch. 7), and a promise-with an eye on the future-of renewal and celebration (ch. 8).
In verse 1 this speech is dated two years later (518 BCE) ten Zechariah's opening speech (1.1).
In verse 2 Bethel is 10 miles north of Jerusalem.
In verse 3 Prophets were often asked for divine instructions (Ezek 8.1; 14.1).
The period of mourning in the fifth month, about which the envoys ask Zechariah,
may have commemorated the destruction of the Temple in the fifth month (2 Kings 25.8-9).
In verse 5 seventy years appears to refer to the Exile, though the exile was shorter
(see comment on 1.12).
In verse 7 Zechariah refers to the period before Jerusalem's fall in 587 BCE.
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