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Jews
[Bible]The term "Jew" originally referred to a member of the tribe of Judah or of the southern kingdom of Judah. After the Babylonian exile it became a name for the people of Israel as a whole, and in the New Testament it frequently appears paired with "Gentile."
Paleo-Hebrew Script
[Bible]The Paleo-Hebrew script is the consonantal alphabet that the people of Israel and Judah used to write Hebrew before the Babylonian exile. It predates the square script now used in the Hebrew Bible and is also called the Old Hebrew script.
Haggai (Prophet)
[People]Haggai was a prophet active after the return from the Babylonian exile, during the reign of the Persian king Darius. He urged the people to resume the stalled rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. The Old Testament Book of Haggai bears his name.
Zechariah (Prophet)
[People]Zechariah was a prophet active during the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem after the return from the Babylonian exile, and he is the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Zechariah. Together with Haggai, he urged the people to rebuild the temple.
Mered
[People]Mered is a man named in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4, where he is identified as a son of Ezrah. He is recorded as having married Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh.
Nehemiah 1
[Bible]Nehemiah 1 is the chapter in which Nehemiah, serving as the king's cupbearer in Shushan the palace in Persia, hears that the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down. He fasts, confesses the people's sins, and prays for restoration.
Nehemiah 7
[Bible]Nehemiah 7 describes how, after the wall is completed, Nehemiah arranges for the guarding of Jerusalem and finds the register (genealogical record) of those who first returned from Babylon, which the chapter then reproduces.
Nehemiah 8:10
[Bible Verses]Nehemiah 8:10 is an exhortation to the people who had returned from exile and were weeping as they heard the Law read. They are told not to grieve on the holy day but to eat together and share with others. The verse is widely quoted for the phrase "the joy of the LORD is your strength."
Haggai 1
[Bible]Haggai 1 records the message the prophet Haggai delivered to the people of Judah, who had returned from exile but kept postponing the rebuilding of the temple, urging them to resume the work. It also recounts how the leaders and the people obeyed and began work on the temple.