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Zechariah 07 General Notes
Structure and formatting
This chapter starts about two years after the previous chapter and is written in prose.
Some translations prefer to set apart quotations. The ULB and many other English translations indent the lines of 7:4-14, which is an extended quotation.
Special concepts in this chapter
Fasting
This chapter discusses fasting. People were asking the same questions as those from previous generations. The Israelites were asking these same questions before they were exiled from their land.