NET Bible
"Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the LORD’s favor"
— Zechariah 7:2, NET Bible
“When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem–melech, and their men, to pray before the Lord,”
“Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Jehovah, ”
“The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh's favor,”
“When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:”
“Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,”
“When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem–melech, and their men, to pray before the Lord,”
The Hypocrisy of False Fasting In King Darius’ fourth year, on the fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month, the LORD’s message came to Zechariah.
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the LORD’s favor
by asking both the priests of the temple of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies and the prophets,“Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?”
The message of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies then came to me,
“Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows:‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me– for me, indeed?