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Zechariah 7:2
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The people of Bethel sent Sharezer, Regem-Melech, and his men to ask the Lord a question.
Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,
The city of Bethel sent Sharezer, Regem-Melech, and their men to ask the Lord a question.
Now [they of] Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Yahweh,
When they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord ,
The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh's favor,
And Sarasar, and Rogumelech, and men that weren with hem, senten to the hous of the Lord, for to preye the face of the Lord;
Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favour of the LORD,
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
It happened after the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer with Regem-Melech and his men to ask the priests in the Lord 's temple and the prophets to pray for them. So they prayed, "Should we mourn and go without eating during the fifth month, as we have done for many years?"
Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Jehovah,
Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,
He sent Sar'etzer and Regem-Melekh with his men to Beit-El in order to ask Adonai 's favor,
when Bethel had sent Sherezer and Regem-melech, and his men, to supplicate Jehovah,
When Bethel-sarezer, and Regem-melech and his men, had sent to entreat the favour of the LORD,
When they had sent vnto the house of God, Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men to pray before the Lord,
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to ask for the Lord's favor.
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men, to entreat the favor of the Lord ,
For they had sent vnto the House of God Sharezer, and Regem-melech and their men to pray before the Lord,
When they had sent to Beth-el, Sherezar and Rab-mag, and the king and his mighty men had sent word to pray for him before the LORD,
yea when Bethel sent Sherezer and Regemmelech, and his men, - to pacify the face of Yahweh:
When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:
Now the people of Bethel had sent Share'zer and Reg'em-mel'ech and their men, to entreat the favor of the LORD,
What time as Sarasar & Rogommelech, and the men that were with them, sent vnto the house of God for to pray before the Lorde:
And Sarasar and Arbeseer the king and his men sent to Bethel, and that to propitiate the Lord,
The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to the Temple of the Lord Almighty to pray for the Lord 's blessing
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer, Regem-melech, and their men to plead for the Lord’s favor
The people of Beit-El sent Sar'etzer and Regem-Melekh, and their men, to entreat the LORD's favor,
When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the Lord ,
And the people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Yahweh,
And Sharezer and Regem-melech, and his men, had sent to Bethel to seek the favor of the face of Jehovah,
And Beth-El sendeth Sherezer and Regem-Melech, and its men, to appease the face of Jehovah,
what tyme as Sarasar and Rogomelech and the men that were with them, sent vnto Bethel for to praye before ye LORDE:
The town of Bethel had sent a delegation headed by Sarezer and Regem-Melech to pray for God 's blessing and to confer with the priests of the Temple of God -of-the-Angel-Armies, and also with the prophets. They posed this question: "Should we plan for a day of mourning and abstinence next August, the seventieth anniversary of Jerusalem's fall, as we have been doing all these years?"
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the Lord 's favor
when the people Zechariah 7:5)">[fn] sent Sherezer, [fn] with Regem-Melech and his men, to the house of God, [fn] to pray before the Lord,
Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,
And the town of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to entreat the favor of Yahweh,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they: Zechariah 6:10, Ezra 6:10, Ezra 7:15-23, Ezra 8:28-30, Isaiah 60:7
pray before the Lord: Heb. intreat the face of the Lord, Zechariah 8:21, Exodus 32:11, *marg. 1 Samuel 13:12, 1 Kings 13:6, Jeremiah 26:19
Cross-References
When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground.
When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes.
Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,
All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people.
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord , and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.
You must distinguish between what is sacred and what is common, between what is ceremonially unclean and what is clean.
They will teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is common, what is ceremonially clean and unclean.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When they had sent unto the house of God,.... It is, in the Hebrew text, "when he sent Bethel"; which some, as Kimchi observes, take to be the name of a man that was sent along with those after mentioned; but the Targum and the Septuagint render it, "when", or "after he had sent unto Bethel": not the place so called in Jacob's time; but Jerusalem, where the temple or house of God was now building; and it may be observed, that the words are expressed in the singular number, "when he had sent" t; and not, as we render them, "when they had sent"; and agreeably, in Zechariah 7:3, it is said, "should I weep", c. as if these messengers were sent by a single person, and yet a body of people is meant and not the captives that remained in Babylon, as most interpreters understand it; but the Jews that were returned from thence, and were in Judea, as Junius and Tremellius observe; for to them the answer is returned, and to them does the Lord by the prophet direct his speech throughout the whole chapter. The persons sent were
Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men; who these persons were is not known; they were, no doubt, principal men of the people, by whom they were sent, and the chief of the embassy, and had others with them inferior to them: part of their business at Bethel, or the house of God, was,
to pray before the Lord; that they might be directed aright, and have a proper answer returned to the question they came with. The temple at Jerusalem was the place where men used to go up to pray; see
Luke 18:10.
t ××ש×× "cum misisset, [sub.] populus", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Tarnovius "et misit", Pagninus, Montanus; "miserat autem sub". Israel, Vatablus; "et miserat", Cocceius; "et misit Bethelum", i. e. "urbem", Burkius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
When they held sent unto the house of God - Rather, âAnd Bethel sent;â that is, the inhabitants of Bethel sent. âThe house of Godâ is nowhere in Holy Scripture called Bethel. Bethel is always the name of the place. . The âhouse of Godâ is designated by historians, Psalmists, prophets, by the name, âBeth-elohim,â more commonly âBeth-Ha-elohim, the God;â or âof the Lord,â YHVH. Zechariah and Haggai use these names. It is not likely that the name, Beth-el, should have first been given to the house of God, when it had been desecrated by the idolatries of Jeroboam. Bethel also is, in the Hebrew order of the words, naturally the subject . Nor is there any reason why they should have sent to Bethel, since they sought an answer from God. For it would be forced to say that they sent to Bethel, in order that those at Bethel should send to Jerusalem; which is not said.
It were unnatural also that the name of the sender should not have been mentioned, when the names of persons inferior, because sent, are recorded . Bethel, in Nehemiahâs time Nehemiah 11:31, was one of the chief places of Benjamin. âTwo hundred twenty and three of the men of Bethel and Aiâ Ezra 2:28 had returned with Zerubbabel. The answer being to âthe peopleâ of the land, such were doubtless the enquirers, not those still in Babylon. The answer shows that the question was not religious, though put as matter of religion. It is remarkable that, whereas in the case of those who brought presents from Babylon, the names express some relation to God, these names are singularly, the one of a parricide son of Sennacherib Isaiah 37:38; 2 Kings 19:37, and of one, chief among the King of Babylonâs princes ; the other probably a secular name, âthe kingâs friendâ.
Osorius: âI do not see why under the name of Bethel, the city so called is not understood. For since Jerusalem was not yet fortified, the Jews chose them sites in various places, where they should be less harassed. All hatred was concentrated on that city, which the neighbors wished not to be restored to its former greatness. Other cities they did not so molest. Bethel then, that is, the assembly of the city, sent messengers to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to God and consult the wise there.â
To entreat the face of the Lord - They wished, it seems, (so to speak) to ingratiate themselves with God with an account of their past self-humiliation, on the day when the house of God was burned by Nebuchadnezzar. In regard to God, the word is always used of entreating Him by earnest prayer .
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Zechariah 7:2. When they had sent - Sherezer and Regem-melech — To inquire whether the fasts should be continued, which they had hitherto observed on account of their ruined temple; and the reason why they inquired was, that they were rebuilding that temple, and were likely to bring it to a joyful issue.
