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Hebrew Names Version

Zechariah 7:1

It happened in the fourth year of king Daryavesh that the word of the LORD came to Zekharyah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Month;   Prophecy;   Zechariah (Zecharias);   Thompson Chain Reference - Zechariah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Months;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Chisleu;   Zechariah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chisleu;   Fast;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Darius;   Regem Melech;   Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chisleu;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chislev;   Time;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dari'us;   Zechariah ;   Zechariah, Prophecy of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Darius;   Fasts;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Month;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Calendar;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Feasts, and Fasts;   Kislev;   Zechariah (1);   Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Haggai;   Kislew;   Month;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Zechariah received a message from the Lord in the fourth year that Darius was the king of Persia. This was on the fourth day of the ninth month (Kislev).
New American Standard Bible
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
New Century Version
In the fourth year Darius was king, on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is called Kislev, the Lord spoke his word to Zechariah.
Update Bible Version
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth [day] of the ninth month, even in Chislev.
Webster's Bible Translation
And 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, [even] in Chisleu;
Amplified Bible
In the fourth year of [the reign of] King Darius [of Persia], the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev (Dec 7, 518 B.C.).
English Standard Version
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
World English Bible
It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And it is maad in the fourthe yeer of Darius, kyng, the word of the Lord was maad to Sacarie, in the fourthe dai of the nynthe monethe, that is Caslew.
English Revised Version
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chislev.
Berean Standard Bible
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
Contemporary English Version
On the fourth day of Chislev, the ninth month of the fourth year that Darius was king of Persia, the Lord again spoke to me.
American Standard Version
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chislev.
Bible in Basic English
And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.
Complete Jewish Bible
In the fourth year of King Daryavesh, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Kislev, a message from Adonai came to Z'kharyah.
Darby Translation
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah on the fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even] in Chislev,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chislev;
King James Version (1611)
And it came to passe in the fourth yeere of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came vnto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth moneth, euen in Chisleu.
New Living Translation
On December 7 of the fourth year of King Darius's reign, another message came to Zechariah from the Lord .
New Life Bible
In the fourth year of King Darius, the Word of the Lord came to Zechariah. This was on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
New Revised Standard
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in the fourth yeere of King Darius, the worde of the Lorde came vnto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth moneth, euen in Chisleu,
George Lamsa Translation
AND it came to pass in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Canun,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it came to pass, in the fourth year of Darius the king, that the word of Yahweh came unto Zechariah, on the fourth of the ninth month, in Chisleu;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Casleu.
Revised Standard Version
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechari'ah in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the fourth yere of king Darius, the word of the lorde came vnto Zacharia in the fourth [day] of the ninth moneth, which is called Casleu,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, that the word of the Lord came to Zacharias on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chaseleu.
Good News Translation
In the fourth year that Darius was emperor, on the fourth day of the ninth month (the month of Kislev), the Lord gave me a message.
Christian Standard Bible®
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
King James Version
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;
Lexham English Bible
And then, in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Kislev.
Literal Translation
And in the fourth year of King Darius, the Word of Jehovah was to Zechariah, in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chislev.
Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of Darius the king hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chisleu.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It happened also in the fourth yeare of kynge Darius, that the worde of the LORDE came vnto Zachary in the fourth daye of the ix. moneth, which is calleth Casleu:
THE MESSAGE
On the fourth day of the ninth month, in the fourth year of the reign of King Darius, God 's Message again came to Zechariah.
New English Translation
In King Darius' fourth year, on the fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah.
New King James Version
Now in the fourth year of King Darius it came to pass that the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Chislev,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now it happened that in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.

Contextual Overview

1 It happened in the fourth year of king Daryavesh that the word of the LORD came to Zekharyah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev. 2 The people of Beit-El sent Sar'etzer and Regem-Melekh, and their men, to entreat the LORD's favor, 3 and to speak to the Kohanim 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?" 4 Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying, 5 "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the Kohanim, 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? 6 When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? 7 Aren't these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Yerushalayim was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the fourth: Zechariah 1:1, Ezra 6:14, Ezra 6:15, Haggai 2:10, Haggai 2:20

Chisleu: Answering to part of November and part of December. Nehemiah 1:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 1:1 - General Zechariah 6:9 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the history of the generations of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noach walked with God.
Genesis 7:1
The LORD said to Noach, "Come with all of your household into the teivah, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
Genesis 7:4
In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the eretz for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
Genesis 7:5
Noach did everything that the LORD commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
Noach was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the eretz.
Genesis 7:7
Noach went into the teivah with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:8
Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
Genesis 7:9
went by pairs to Noach into the teivah, male and female, as God commanded Noach.
Genesis 7:10
It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the eretz.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, in the fourth year of King Darius,.... Near two years after the foundation of the temple was laid, Haggai 2:10 and near two years before it was finished, Ezra 6:15 when the work was going forward, and there was a great deal of reason to believe it would be completed:

[that] the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, in the fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even] in Chisleu: which answers to part of our October, and part of November.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the fourth year of Darius - Two years after the series of visions, shown to him, and two years before the completion of the temple. Chisleu being December, it was the end of 518 b.c.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII

Some Jews being sent from those who remained at Babylon to

inquire of the priests and prophets at Jerusalem whether they

were still bound to observe those fasts which had been

appointed on occasion of the destruction of Jerusalem, and kept

during the captivity, the prophet is commanded to take this

opportunity of enforcing upon them the weightier matters of

the law, judgment and mercy, that they might not incur such

calamities as befell their fathers. He also intimates that in

their former fasts they had regarded themselves more than God;

and that they had rested too much on the performance of

external rites, although the former prophets had largely

insisted on the superior excellence of moral duties, 1-14.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII

Verse Zechariah 7:1. The fourth year of King Darius — Two years after they began to rebuild the temple, see Zechariah 1:1, A.M. 3486.

The ninth month, even in Chisleu — This answers to a part of our November and December. The names of the month appear only under and after the captivity.


 
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