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Haggai, Zechariah 1–8: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Haggai and Zechariah were written during a critical period in Israel’s history, the momentous return of the Jews from Babylonian exile. Following the conquest of Babylon by the Persian Empire, the Israelites sought to reestablish their ethnic and religious legacy in Judah. This was a time of profound turmoil and uncertainty, and Haggai and Zechariah provided a crucial measure of support and...

words of Yahweh. Like the first prophetic formula in verse 1, “the word of Yahweh came” (see NOTE), the stereotyped language used to announce a message from God is derived from the context of the Divine Council. The prophet is a courier who authenticates his oral delivery of a message by citing its source. In this case, the expression is often expanded by the addition of divine epithets to the name Yahweh. In Haggai-Zechariah 1–8, the embellishment nearly always takes the form of “of Hosts”; see
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