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Zechariah 7:2
Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,
Zechariah 7:2 · Bible in Basic English
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Zechariah 7:2 in other translations
When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech and their men to entreat the LORD’s favor,
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In context
1 And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.
2 Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,
3 And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
4 Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying
5 Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
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