- According to the calendar reference in Zechariah 7:1 when does the Jewish year begin — with Tishrei or with Nisan?
- Why would a message have been sent to “God” and to whom was the message delivered?
- Would Zechariah 7:3 indicate that there were a number of prophets who had returned to Israel?
- Why would there be lamentation in the fifth month and what would that month be if one were to begin the counting with Nisan?
- In Zechariah 7:5 does “Am HaAretz” refer to the general populous or rather to the Council of Representatives?
- In Zechariah 7:4 et. seq. what is the response to the inquiry as forthcoming from Divinity through the prophet?
- Would it appear that the fasting, then, is efficacious in terms of resolving the lamentations for the destruction of Israel and Judea?
- Would Zechariah 7:9 indicate that, instead of fasting, there is another approach which, indeed, is efficacious?
- And, according to Zechariah 7:11, had this particular course of action been clearly projected before — and with what reaction prior to the destruction in Judea and Israel seventy years before?
- As a result, what was the consequence (Zechariah 7:12)?
- Moreover, (Zechariah 7:13) what will be the response now to conduct which is mourning but, evidently, which does not include a consistent regular pattern of ethical conduct?
- Does the chapter, then, end on a positive note, a negative note, or an indication of what might happen if a particular course of (ethical) conduct were to be adopted now?
