CONTENTS
The Lord is speaking to the Prophet in this Chapter, not by vision, but by revelation. The people of the Land come to ask questions of the Prophet, in the name of the Lord, and the Prophet is commanded to make answer for the Lord.
(Zechariah 7:1). 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 Chissleu;
If the Reader will calculate the different dates of the Prophet's account concerning his ministry, he will find that nearly two years had elapsed from his former preaching. See Zechariah 1:7. The month Chisleu corresponds to our October and November in part.