Zechariah 7:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

VII.
THE INQUIRY CONCERNING THE CONTINUED OBSERVANCE OF THE FASTS.

(1) Fourth year... This was in B.C. 518, the second year after the commencement of the re-building of the Temple, and about two years before its completion.

Zechariah 7:1

1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;