John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Zechariah 7:5
Speak unto all the people of the land ,.... Of Judea, who had sent these men on this errand, and whom they represented, and in whose name they spake: and to the priests ; who were consulted on this occasion: saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth ; on the seventh or tenth day of the fifth month Ab, on account of the temple being burnt by Nebuchadnezzar: and seventh month ; the month Tisri, which answers to September; on the third day of this month a fast was kept on... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Zechariah 7:1-7
This occasional sermon, which the prophet preached, and which is recorded in this and the next chapter, was above two years after the former, in which he gave them an account of his visions, as appears by comparing the date of this (Zech. 7:1), in the ninth month of the fourth year of Darius, with the date of that (Zech. 1:1), in the eighth month of the second year of Darius; not that Zechariah was idle all that while (it is expressly said that he and Haggai continued prophesying till the... read more