In the eighth month — Two months after Haggai began to encourage the Jews to build the temple. Zechariah — Probably this is that Zechariah whom the Jews slew between the temple and the altar, Matthew 23:35.
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Zechariah 1:1
1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,