# Zechariah 7:5

> “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

— Zechariah 7:5, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 520-518 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Zechariah 1:1 dates itself by the eighth month of the second year of Darius.

## Who ruled

- **Darius I**, king of Persia, 522-486 BC · Source: Behistun Inscription, written at his order in three languages; Herodotus III

## See also

- Zechariah 1:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/1/12
- Isaiah 58:4-6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/58/4
- Matthew 5:16-18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/5/16
- 1 Corinthians 10:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-corinthians/10/31
- Isaiah 1:11-12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/1/11
- Zechariah 7:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/7/3
- Zechariah 7:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/7/6
- Matthew 6:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/6/2

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/7/5
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/zechariah/7
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).