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Zechariah 7:3

by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

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ASV

and to speak unto the priests of the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

KJV

And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

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19 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לֵאמֹ֗רle.Morto sayH559 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ha.ko.ha.Nimthe priestsH3548 →
אֲשֶׁר֙'a.SherwhoH834 →
לְבֵית־le.veit-[belonged] to [the] house ofH1004 →
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
צְבָא֔וֹתtze.va.'otof hostsH6635 →
וְאֶל־ve.'el-and toH413 →
הַנְּבִיאִ֖יםha.ne.vi.'Imthe prophetsH5030 →
לֵאמֹ֑רle.Mor<to> sayingH559 →
הַֽאֶבְכֶּה֙ha.'ev.Keh¿ will I weepH1058 →
בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁba.Cho.deshin the monthH2320 →
הַחֲמִשִׁ֔יha.cha.mi.Shi<the> fifthH2549 →
הִנָּזֵ֕רhi.na.Zerwill I consecrate myself?H5144 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֣רka.'a.Sherjust asH834 →
עָשִׂ֔יתִי'a.Si.tiI have doneH6213 →
זֶ֖הzehthisH2088 →
כַּמֶּ֥הka.Mehhow many?H4100 →
שָׁנִֽים׃ פsha.NimyearsH8141 →

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Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”Zechariah 8:19“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”James 4:8–10Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.Malachi 2:7For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.Matthew 9:15Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.1 Corinthians 7:5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.Luke 15:29But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.1 Samuel 21:4“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”Zechariah 12:12The land will mourn, each clan on its own: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives,Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”2 Kings 25:8–9On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.Deuteronomy 17:9–11You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case.Zechariah 12:12–14The land will mourn, each clan on its own: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives,Deuteronomy 33:10He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.Haggai 2:11“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling.Nehemiah 9:1–3On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.Ezekiel 44:23–24They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.

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