Zechariah 8:10 meaning and explanation

For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.

Zechariah 8:10, Berean Standard Bible

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Zechariah 8:10 belongs to a message the prophet gives the returned exiles in Jerusalem, who had started rebuilding the temple but faced hard times. God recalls the years before that work resumed: wages went unpaid, travel was unsafe, and trust had collapsed into neighbor against neighbor.

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