Verse 7
Zechariah received another revelation from the Lord three months after his previous one in Darius’ second year, 520 B.C. The second year of Darius was 520 B.C., but the eleventh month would have been January-February. In our modern calendar this would have been 519 B.C.
"On the same day (24 Shebat), five months earlier, the rebuilding of the temple had been resumed (cf. Haggai 1:14-15; see also Haggai 2:10; Haggai 2:18; Haggai 2:20). It was evidently a day in which God had special delight because of the obedience of his people." [Note: Barker, p. 610.]
"Also on that day two months previously Haggai had delivered a stern rebuke to the priests for their impurity and to the people for their delay in building the temple (Haggai 2:10-17). On that day, moreover, Haggai had received the far-reaching revelation (Haggai 2:20) of the destruction of Gentile world power previous to the establishment of millennial rule of the greater Zerubbabel-Messiah (Haggai 2:21-23)." [Note: Unger, p. 26.]
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