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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Gill's Exposition
And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the Lord of hosts,.... That ministered in the sanctuary, as the Targum explains it, who offered sacrifices, &c. and who were to be consulted in…
Barnes' Notes
Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself? - “In the fifth month,” from the seventh to the tenth day, Jerusalem was in flames, fired by Nebuchadnezzar. “He burnt the house of the Lord, and…
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
unto the priests See Hag 2:11 and note.
which were in ofR.V.
and to the prophets i.e. Haggai and Zechariah.
Should I weep Similarly the sing. num. is used of a community or nation, Num 20:18-19; Jos…
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