When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
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Gill's Exposition
When they had sent unto the house of God,.... It is, in the Hebrew text, "when he sent Bethel"; which some, as Kimchi observes, take to be the name of a man that was sent along with those after…
Barnes' Notes
When they held sent unto the house of God - Rather, “And Bethel sent;” that is, the inhabitants of Bethel sent. “The house of God” is nowhere in Holy Scripture called Bethel. Bethel is always the name…
Adam Clarke
When they had sent - Sherezer and Regem-melech - To inquire whether the fasts should be continued, which they had hitherto observed on account of their ruined temple; and the reason why they inquired…
This occasional sermon, which the prophet preached, and which is recorded in this and the next chapter, was above two years after the former, in which he gave them an account of his visions, as…
Cambridge Bible
when they had sent unto the house of God Rather, And (or now) Bethel sent. "Now they ofBethel had sent." R. V. Having announced the fact and the date of the word of Jehovah coming to him again in Zec…
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