translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ZEC

label: NET study note

text: The fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month would be December 7, 518 b.c. , 22 months after the previous eight visions.


text: This lamentation marked the occasion of the destruction of Solomon’s temple on August 14, 586 b.c. , almost exactly 70 years earlier (cf. 2 Kgs 25:8 ).


text: The Shephelah is the geographical region between the Mediterranean coastal plain and the Judean hill country. The Hebrew term can be translated “lowlands” (cf. ASV), “foothills” (NAB, NASB, NLT), or “steppes.”