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Young's Literal Translation

Zechariah 7:1

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.

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

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.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.).
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,
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.
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.
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,
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).
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,
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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;
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 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.
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.
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.

Contextual Overview

1 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. 2 And Beth-El sendeth Sherezer and Regem-Melech, and its men, to appease the face of Jehovah, 3 speaking unto the priests who [are] at the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and unto the prophets, saying, `Do I weep in the fifth month -- being separated -- as I have done these so many years?' 4 And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts unto me, saying: 5 `Speak unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying: 6 When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh [months] -- even these seventy years -- did ye keep the fast [to] Me -- Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking? 7 `Are not [these] the words that Jehovah proclaimed by the hand of the former prophets, in Jerusalem's being inhabited, and [in] safety, and its cities round about it, and the south and the plain -- abiding?'

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
These [are] births of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.
Genesis 7:1
And Jehovah saith to Noah, `Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;
Genesis 7:4
for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'
Genesis 7:5
And Noah doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him:
Genesis 7:6
and Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;
Genesis 7:8
of the clean beasts and of the beasts that [are] not clean, and of the fowl, and of every thing that is creeping upon the ground,
Genesis 7:9
two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:10
And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been 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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