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Zephaniah (son of Maaseiah)
[People]Zephaniah son of Maaseiah was a priest who served as the second priest, ranking next to the high priest, during the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. He was sent by the king as an envoy to Jeremiah and was executed at Riblah after the fall of Jerusalem.
Zephaniah (Prophet)
[People]Zephaniah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered during the reign of King Josiah of Judah. The Old Testament Book of Zephaniah preserves his prophecies, in which he proclaimed judgment on "the day of the LORD" and the restoration of the remnant.
Josiah (son of Zephaniah)
[People]Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, owned the house where a group of returned exiles gathered. He appears in Zechariah 6:10 and is called "Hen" in Zechariah 6:14.
Zephaniah 1
[Bible]Zephaniah 1 records the word that came to Zephaniah in the days of Josiah. It indicts Judah and Jerusalem for idolatry and religious indifference and proclaims the coming judgment of the "day of the LORD."
Jedaiah
[People]Jedaiah was one of the returned exiles from Babylon mentioned in the Book of Zechariah. Together with Heldai and Tobijah, he was connected with the making of a crown for Joshua the high priest from the silver and gold they had brought (Zechariah 6:10, 14).
Heldai
[People]Heldai was a Jew who returned from the Babylonian exile. In Zechariah 6, the silver and gold received from him were made into crowns that were set upon the head of Joshua the high priest. In Zechariah 6:14 he is called "Helem."
Cushi
[People]Cushi was the father of the Old Testament prophet Zephaniah. He is named only once in Scripture, in the genealogy of Zephaniah 1:1, and nothing else about his life is recorded.
Zechariah son of Jehoiada
[People]Zechariah son of Jehoiada was a member of a priestly family during the reign of King Joash of Judah. After rebuking the people for idolatry, he was stoned to death in the temple court at the king's command (2 Chronicles 24).
Zechariah (Son of Jehoiada)
[People]Zechariah, son of the priest Jehoiada, lived during the reign of Joash, king of Judah. He rebuked the people for idolatry and, at the king's command, was stoned to death in the court of the temple (2 Chronicles 24).
Zechariah (son of Jeberechiah)
[People]Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah, was one of the two "faithful witnesses," together with Uriah the priest, whom Isaiah took when, at God's command, he wrote the name "Maher-shalal-hash-baz" on a tablet (Isaiah 8:2).
Zechariah (King of Israel)
[People]Zechariah was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Jeroboam II. He reigned for six months before he was assassinated by Shallum, and his death brought the dynasty of Jehu to an end.
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.
Maher-shalal-hash-baz
[People]Maher-shalal-hash-baz was a son of the prophet Isaiah and appears in Isaiah 8. His name, meaning "plunder comes swiftly, spoil comes speedily," served as a sign that Aram and the northern kingdom of Israel, which were threatening Judah, would fall to Assyria.
Joash
[People]Joash was a king of Judah who survived Athaliah's massacre of the royal family and came to the throne at the age of seven. He repaired the temple, but according to 2 Chronicles, after the death of the high priest Jehoiada he served idols and had Jehoiada's son Zechariah put to death.
Jahaziel
[People]Jahaziel was a Levite in the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah. When a coalition of Moabites and Ammonites invaded, he was moved by the Spirit and prophesied that "the battle is not yours, but God's" (2 Chronicles 20).
Shallum
[People]Shallum was the fifteenth king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He killed King Zechariah, seized the throne, and reigned in Samaria for one month before Menahem killed him (2 Kings 15).
Zechariah
[Bible]Zechariah is the thirty-eighth book of the Old Testament. This prophetic book encourages the people of Judah who had returned from the Babylonian exile to rebuild the Temple, and it prophesies concerning the Messiah and the restoration of the kingdom of God.
Meshelemiah
[People]Meshelemiah was a Levitical temple gatekeeper of the Korahite line in the time of David, the son of Kore and the father of Zechariah. He appears in 1 Chronicles 26, where verse 14 records his name as "Shelemiah."
Joshua (High Priest)
[People]Joshua was the high priest who led the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem after the return from the Babylonian exile. The son of Jehozadak, he appears as "Jeshua" in Ezra and Nehemiah.
Jozadak
[People]Jozadak was the son of Seraiah, the high priest in Jerusalem just before the Babylonian exile. He was carried into captivity when Judah fell, and Scripture records him as the father of Jeshua (Joshua), who became high priest after the return from exile.