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Zerubbabel [Heb.,=seed of Babylon], in the Bible, a grandson of King Jehoiachin (exiled in 597 BC) and governor of Jerusalem. He led a company returning from exile in c.520 BC under patronage of the Persian King Darius. Zerubbabel was a contemporary of Haggai and Zechariah, under whose stimulating encouragement he finished the rebuilding of the Temple. He is also known as Zorobabel.

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Zerubbabel (6th/5th cent. BCE). Post-exilic Jewish leader. Zerubbabel worked with Joshua the high priest as leader of the returned exiles from Babylon and as builder of the Temple in Jerusalem. Zerubbabel's activities are described in the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, and Zechariah.

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Zerubbabel A member of the house of David who is mentioned in Haggai (1: 1; 2: 2) along with the high priest Joshua. He was charged to rebuild the Temple. In Zech. (4: 6–10) he is to do the work assisted only by the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts. He refuses any bogus help from self-proclaimed worshippers of Yahweh (Ezra 4: 1–3). It may be that Zerubbabel owed his position as governor (Hag. 1: 1) to Darius I of Persia.

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