Zerubbabel

American  

[zuh-ruhb-uh-buhl] / zəˈrʌb ə bəl /

noun

1. a leader of the Jews on their return to Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity. Ezra 2:1, 2; 3:2–13.

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Zerubbabel

All, from Zerubbabel down to the last Hiram, were such as you see my father.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

Quite a number of the captives, such as Daniel, Zerubbabel, Nehemiah, occupied positions of great trust and emolument.

From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.

It shows that מָלַךְ, which, standing by itself, may designate also another government than by a king, such as, e.g., that of Zerubbabel, is to be taken in its full sense.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

There can be no doubt that these sons of oil, as they are called, represented Joshua and Zerubbabel, living at the time of Zechariah, the one the priest and the other the king.

From Studies in Zechariah by Gaebelein, Arno C.

Here Zerubbabel built the second Temple after the return of the Jews from exile, and Antiochus Epiphanes desecrated it, and Herod burned part of it and pulled down the rest.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry