Zechariah 7:2
New International Version
The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat the LORD

New Living Translation
The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech, along with their attendants, to seek the LORD’s favor.

English Standard Version
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the LORD,

Berean Standard Bible
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD

King James Bible
When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

New King James Version
when the people sent Sherezer, with Regem-Melech and his men, to the house of God, to pray before the LORD,

New American Standard Bible
Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,

NASB 1995
Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,

NASB 1977
Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,

Legacy Standard Bible
And the town of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to entreat the favor of Yahweh,

Amplified Bible
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to seek the favor of the LORD,

Christian Standard Bible
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer, Regem-melech, and their men to plead for the LORD’s favor

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer, Regem-melech, and their men to plead for the LORD’s favor

American Standard Version
Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Jehovah,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he sent Sheretsar and Rabmag to Bayth Eil, and the King sent and his mighty men to pray for him before LORD JEHOVAH

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Sarasar and Arbeseer the king and his men sent to Bethel, and that to propitiate the Lord,

Douay-Rheims Bible
When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:

English Revised Version
Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favour of the LORD,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Now, [the people from] Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech with their men to ask the LORD for a blessing.

Good News Translation
The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to the Temple of the LORD Almighty to pray for the LORD's blessing

International Standard Version
The people of Bethel were sending Sharezer, Regem-melech, and their men to pray in the LORD's presence

JPS Tanakh 1917
When Bethel-sarezer, and Regem-melech and his men, had sent to entreat the favour of the LORD,

Literal Standard Version
And Beth-El sends Sherezer and Regem-Melech, and its men, to appease the face of YHWH,

Majority Standard Bible
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD

New American Bible
Bethelsarezer sent Regem-melech and his men to implore the favor of the LORD

NET Bible
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the LORD's favor

New Revised Standard Version
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men, to entreat the favor of the LORD,

New Heart English Bible
The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat the LORD's favor,

Webster's Bible Translation
When they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

World English Bible
The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech and their men to entreat Yahweh’s favor,

Young's Literal Translation
And Beth-El sendeth Sherezer and Regem-Melech, and its men, to appease the face of Jehovah,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
A Call to Justice and Mercy
1In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. 2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD 3by 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?”…

Cross References
1 Kings 13:6
Then the king responded to the man of God, "Intercede with the LORD your God and pray that my hand may be restored." So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him as it was before.

Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!"

Zechariah 8:21
and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: 'Let us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.'


Treasury of Scripture

When they had sent to the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

they.

Zechariah 6:10
Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;

Ezra 6:10
That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

Ezra 7:15-23
And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellers have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem, …

pray before the Lord.

Zechariah 8:21
And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

Exodus 32:11
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?

1 Samuel 13:12
Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.

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Zechariah 7
1. The captives enquire concerning the set fasts.
4. Zechariah reproves the hypocrisy of their fasting.
8. Sin the cause of their captivity.














Verse 2. - When they had sent unto the house of God. The Vulgate supports this version, Et miserunt ad domum Dei; the LXX. gives, Καὶ ἐξαπέστειλεν εἰς Βαιθὴλ Σαρασὰρ καὶ Ἀρβεσεὲρ ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ οἱ ἄνδρες αὐτοῦ, "And Sarasar and Arbescer the king and his men sent to Bethel" - which is far from clear. But the temple is never called Beth-el, while a mission to the town Bethel would be unmeaning. So "Bethel" is to be taken as the subject of the sentence, thus: "Now Bethel (i.e. they of Bethel) sent." The persons named may be taken either as the deputation or as the persons meant by "they of Bethel." The former seems most likely to be intended. The Bethelites sent these men to Jerusalem to make the inquiry. The exiles returned each to his own city, as we read in Ezra it.; among them were many people of Bethel (Ezra 2:28; Nehemiah 7:32), which town they rebuilt (Nehemiah 11:31). They seem to have tacitly acquiesced in the spiritual supremacy of Jerusalem, notwithstanding the associations Connected with their own city. Sherezer. The names of the deputies are Assyrian; they seem to have retained them on their return. Sherezer, equivalent to Assyrian Sar-usur or Asur-sar-usur, "Asur protect the King," is the name borne by a sen of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:37). Regem-melech; "Friend of the King." The first half of the word is probably Assyrian (see Schrader, 'Die Keilinschr. und Alt. Test.,' pp. 206, 417). And their men. Certain persons associated with them in the business. To pray before the Lord; literally, to stroke the face of the Lord (Zechariah 8:21, 22; Exodus 32:11); so Latin, mulcere caput. Hence it means, "to entreat the favour of God" for their city. This was one object of their mission. The other purpose is mentioned in the next verse.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now the people of Bethel
אֵ֔ל (’êl)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1008: Bethel -- 'house of God', a city in Ephraim, also a place in southern Judah

had sent
וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ (way·yiš·laḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

Sharezer
אֶ֕צֶר (’e·ṣer)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8272: Sharezer -- an Assyrian, also perhaps an Israelite

and
וְרֶ֥גֶם (wə·re·ḡem)
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Strong's Hebrew

Regem-melech,
מֶ֖לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7278: Regemmelech -- 'king's heap', an Israelite

along with their men,
וַֽאֲנָשָׁ֑יו (wa·’ă·nā·šāw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 582: Man, mankind

to plead
לְחַלּ֖וֹת (lə·ḥal·lō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 2470: To be weak or sick

before
פְּנֵ֥י (pə·nê)
Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the LORD
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH


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