Zerubbabel
Family: Judah · Role: governor · First appears: Haggai 1
Zerubbabel, governor of Judah and son of Shealtiel, received the word of God through Haggai in the second year of Darius’s reign, alongside Joshua the high priest. God commanded the people to gather wood and rebuild the LORD’s house, saying, “Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house.”
By the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, God had stirred Zerubbabel’s spirit, and he, Joshua, and the remnant of the people obeyed and began the work. In the seventh month, God told him to be strong and work, promising, “for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts.”
God later chose Zerubbabel as a signet and declared that the great mountain before him would become a plain. Zerubbabel had laid the foundation of the house, and his hands would also finish it.
Relationship record
Life events
- God sent Haggai to deliver a message to Zerubbabel and Joshua.(Haggai 1)
- God commanded the people to gather wood and rebuild the LORD's house.(Haggai 1)
- Zerubbabel and Joshua obeyed God's message, and the people began working on the LORD's house.(Haggai 1)
- With: Joshua God Haggai
- “And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,”
- God commands Zerubbabel and Joshua to be strong and work.(Haggai 2)
- God chooses Zerubbabel and makes him as a signet.(Haggai 2)
- With: God
- “In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.”
- God declares that the great mountain before Zerubbabel will become a plain.(Zechariah 4)
- With: God
- “Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain:”
- Zerubbabel has laid the foundation of the house and will finish it.(Zechariah 4)
- “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it;”
Haggai 1
- parent: Shealtiel “Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah”
- commander: God “Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him”
- with God (interaction) “And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah”
- with Haggai (interaction) “came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah”
Haggai 2
- commander: God “Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:”
- with God (God chooses Zerubbabel as his servant.) “In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Prophets. Made with Rho MD.