Zechariah 1:7 meaning and explanation
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo.
Zechariah 1:7, Berean Standard Bible
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This verse is a dated introduction to Zechariah's night visions, given to the prophet in Jerusalem after the exiles returned from Babylon. The date is precise: the twenty-fourth day of Shebat, the eleventh month, in the second year of the Persian king Darius, so about 519 BC.
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