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The second chapter contains: The second prophecy (1–9), which was delivered a month after the first; The third prophecy (10–19), delivered two months and three days after the second; and; The fourth prophecy (20–23), delivered on the same day as the third. These discourses are referred to in Ezra 5:1 and 6:14. (Compare Haggai 2:7, 8 and 22)
The New International Commentary on the Old Testament is a series of commentaries in English on the text of the Old Testament in Hebrew. It is published by the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. The series editors are Robert L. Hubbard, Jr. and Bill T. Arnold. [1]
Russian icon of Haggai, 18th century (Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia). Haggai or Aggeus [1] (/ ˈ h æ ɡ aɪ /; Hebrew: חַגַּי – Ḥaggay; Koine Greek: Ἀγγαῖος; Latin: Aggaeus) was a Hebrew prophet active during the building of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, one of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the author or subject of the Book of Haggai.
His work has focused especially on the following Old Testament books: Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Isaiah, Judges, Psalms, and Lamentations. [ 4 ] Boda served as president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies in 2013–2014 and was the program secretary for the Institute for Biblical Research from 2012 to 2018 ...
Zechariah 1 is the first chapter [a] of the Book of Zechariah in the Hebrew Bible [1] or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [2] [3] This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Zechariah. In the Hebrew Bible it forms a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. [4]
The Twelve Minor Prophets (Hebrew: שנים עשר, Shneim Asar; Imperial Aramaic: תרי עשר, Trei Asar, "Twelve") (Ancient Greek: δωδεκαπρόφητον, "the Twelve Prophets"), or the Book of the Twelve, is a collection of prophetic books, written between about the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament.
One of the three prophets from the post-exilic period, Zechariah's prophecies took place during the reign of Darius the Great. [1]Chapters 1–8 of the book are contemporary with the prophecies of Haggai, [2] while chapters 9–14 (often termed Second Zechariah) are thought to have been written much later—in the 5th century, during the late Persian or early Ptolemaic period. [3]
The section comprising chapter 1 to 6 describes the history before the arrival of Ezra to the land of Judah [5] [6] in 468 BCE. [7] This chapter records the contribution of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah to the temple building project and the investigation by Persian officials. [8]