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The post-exilic prophetic books of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi are set in times of great adversity. God’s people are minnows in the vast Persian Empire, and the promises of the earlier prophets for a glorious restoration of Jerusalem seem far from their experience. These books, from beginning to end, restate God’s intention to establish his glorious kingdom, and explain what this means for the...

10:1–2. The unit opens with a call to ask Yahweh for rain ‘in the season of spring rain’, considered to be March/April (Smith 1984: 261). If the rain did not come at this time, it meant crop failure and famine, something experienced in Zechariah’s day (cf. Hag. 1:10–11). The reason for asking God for rain is that he is the one who ‘makes thunderbolts’ and ‘will give a rain shower’ (cf. 14:17–18). He is the one who is sovereign over the weather (cf. Pss 65:9; 68:9; 104:13; 135:7; Job 38:24–28,
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