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Zechariah's prophetical career probably began in the second year of Darius the Great, king of the Achaemenid Empire (520 BCE). [4] His greatest concern appears to have been with the building of the Second Temple. [4] He features in chapters 1-8 of the Book of Zechariah but he does not appear in the remaining chapters of the book (chapters 9-14 ...
prophecy of Jonah [1] during the time of Babylonian captivity, though dating of the book ranges from the 6th to the late 3rd century BC. c. 796 BC–c. 768 BC [citation needed] King Amaziah of Judah. prophecy of Amos, Hosea. c. 767 BC–c. 754 BC [citation needed] King Uzziah of Judah c. 740 BC–c. 700 BC [citation needed] prophecy of Isaiah ...
[6] [20] Accordingly, Zechariah was a contemporary of the prophet Haggai, [21] confirming the records in Ezra 5:1 and Ezra 6:14. [2] [3] [20] Verse 1: "in the eighth month" corresponds to mid October–mid November 520 BCE. Verse 7: "the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month" corresponds to a date between mid-January and mid-February 519 ...
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]
(2 Kings 15:8) William F. Albright has dated his reign to 746 BC – 745 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 753 BC – 752 BC. [1] The account of his reign is briefly told in 2 Kings (2 Kings 15:8–12). According to the Bible, Zechariah did what was evil in the Lord's sight, as the previous kings of Israel since Jeroboam I had done.
Zechariah (Arabic: زكريا Zakariyya) is also a prophet in Islam, and is mentioned in the Qur'an as the father of Yaḥyā (John the Baptist). Zechariah is also believed by some Muslims to have been a martyr. An old tradition narrates that Zechariah was sawn in half, [15] in a death which resembles that attributed to Isaiah in Lives of the ...
One of the chiefs of the tribe of Reuben: 1 Chron 5:7. One of the porters of the tabernacle: 1 Chron 9:21. 1 Chron 9:37. A Levite who assisted at the bringing up of the ark from the house of Obed-edom: 1 Chron 15:20–24. A Kohathite Levite: 1 Chron 24:25. A Merarite Levite: 1 Chron 27:21. The father of Iddo: 1 Chron 27:21.
Another Iddo is mentioned in Ezra 8:17 as the chief man in a place named Casiphia. Ezra requests assistance from Iddo and his brethren to bring servants for the Temple.It is this Iddo to whom Ezra refers when he calls the prophet Zechariah a "son of Iddo" in Ezra 5:1 and 6:14.