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5 Then the prophet Haggai and Iddo’s son Zekaryah prophesied to the Jews in Yerushalem and across Yehudah in the name of Yisrael’s god who they served.[ref] 2 Then Shealtiel’s son Zerubabel and Yotsadak’s son Yeshua took action and began to rebuild God’s temple in Yerushalem, and the prophets who served God were there with them, supporting them.[ref]
3 At that time, Tattenai, the governor of the province west of the Euphrates, and Shetar-Bozenai, and their companions came to them and demanded, “Who gave you all permission to rebuild this temple?” 4 They also asked the Jews to tell them the names of the men who were working on the building. 5 However, God was watching over the Jewish leaders, and they weren’t actually stopped. A report was sent to King Dareyavesh, then they waited for a response. 6 Tattenai, the governor of the province west of the river, and Shetar-Bozenai and his companions, the provincial officials, sent the letter to King Dareyavesh (Darius)—7 this is what was written in their report:
“To King Dareyavesh. All peace. 8 Let it be known to the king that we went to the province of Yehudah, to the temple of the great God, and it is being built with large stones, and timber is being placed in the walls. This work is being done to a high standard and they’re making good progress.
9 “Then we asked those elders, ‘Who gave you all permission to rebuild this temple?’ 10 We also asked them their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders to inform you.
11 “This is the answer they gave us, ‘We are servants of the god of the heavens and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was constructed and finished many years ago by a famous Israeli king. 12 However, because our ancestors made the god of the heavens angry, he let Babylonian King Nevukadnetstsar (Nebuchadnezzar, the Chaldean) defeat them, and he destroyed that temple and caused the people to be exiled to Babylon.[ref] 13 But in the first year of the reign of Babylonian King Koresh (Cyrus), he made a decree to rebuild this house of God.[ref] 14 What’s more, the gold and silver containers that Nevukadnetstsar had taken out from that temple that was in Yerushalem and had brought to the temple in Babylon, King Koresh took them out from the temple in Babylon and they were handed over to the man named Sheshbatstsar who he’d appointed as governor over Yehudah. 15 Koresh had told him to take those containers and put them back in the temple in Yerushalem, and to ensure that the temple got rebuilt in the same place where it had been before. 16 So Sheshbatstsar came here and laid the foundation of God’s house in Yerushalem, and since then, it’s been being rebuilt but isn’t finished yet.’
17 So now, if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the records in the king’s treasure house there in Babylon, if it’s correct that a decree was set by King Koresh to rebuild this house of God in Yerushalem. Then let the king send his decision on this matter back to us.”
5:1 OSHB variant note: נביא/ה: (x-qere) ’נְבִיָּ֗/א’: lemma_5029 n_1.2.1 morph_ANcmsd/Td id_15KNH נְבִיָּ֗/א
5:1 OSHB variant note: נביאי/א: (x-qere) ’נְבִיַּיָּ֔/א’: lemma_5029 n_1.2 morph_ANcmpd/Td id_15nkE נְבִיַּיָּ֔/א
5:2 OSHB variant note: נביאי/א: (x-qere) ’נְבִיַּיָּ֥/א’: lemma_5029 morph_ANcmpd/Td id_15MWU נְבִיַּיָּ֥/א
5:9 OSHB note: We read the punctuation in L differently from BHQ.
5:9 OSHB note: We read punctuation in L differently from BHS.
5:10 OSHB note: We read the punctuation in L differently from BHQ.
5:10 OSHB note: We read punctuation in L differently from BHS.
5:12 OSHB variant note: כסדי/א: (x-qere) ’כַּסְדָּאָ֑/ה’: lemma_3679 n_1 morph_ANgmsd/Td id_15mxT כַּסְדָּאָ֑/ה
5:15 OSHB variant note: אלה: (x-qere) ’אֵ֚ל’: lemma_412 n_1.2.0 morph_ANcmsa id_15vkL אֵ֚ל
The Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, where all Israelite males were commanded to offer sacrifices to the Lord (Exodus 23:14-19; Deuteronomy 16:16-17), underwent several stages of reconstruction and development over hundreds of years. The first Temple was built by King Solomon to replace the aging Tabernacle, and it was constructed on a threshing floor on high ground on the north side of the city (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21). Hundreds of years later King Hezekiah expanded the platform surrounding the Temple. When Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 B.C., the Temple was completely destroyed (2 Kings 25:1-21; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 39:1-10; 52:1-30). It was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after a group of Jews returned to Judea from exile in Babylon (Ezra 1:5-6:15; Nehemiah 7:5-65). Herod the Great completely rebuilt and expanded the Temple once again around 20 B.C., making it one of the largest temples in the Roman world. Jesus’ first believers often met together in Solomon’s Colonnade, a columned porch that encircled the Temple Mount, perhaps carrying on a tradition started by Jesus himself (John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12). But Herod’s Temple did not last long: After many Jews revolted against Rome, the Romans eventually recaptured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in A.D. 70.
If you ask someone today what biblical prophets did, they will likely tell you that they divinely foretold of future events. While this was often the case, most prophets in the Bible focused as much on “forthtelling” God’s messages as they did on “foretelling” the future. That is, their primary role was to simply “forthtell” divinely acquired messages to leaders and groups of people, and at times that included foretelling of coming judgment, blessing, rescue, etc. Also, though plenty of prophets (sometimes called “seers” in Scripture) often spoke in confrontational or eccentric language that put them at odds with kings and religious leaders, the biblical writers also applied the term prophet to people who communicated God’s messages in ways that many readers today might not think of as prophecy, such as worship leaders appointed by David to “prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals” (1 Chronicles 25:1). Similarly, the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings are typically categorized as history by Christians, but in the Hebrew canon they belong to the category of Former Prophets. The Lord raised up prophets throughout all of biblical history, from the giving of the law under Moses to the revelation of the last days by the apostle John, and the kings of Israel and Judah often recognized and supported specific people as official prophets of the royal court and consulted them to find out God’s perspective about official matters. Following is a list of nearly everyone designated as prophet or seer in the Old Testament and the primary area of their ministry.
• Zechariah (796 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 24:20] => Jerusalem
• Jonah (780 B.C.) [2 Kings 14:25; Jonah 1:1] => Gath-hepher, Nineveh
• Hosea (770 B.C.) [Hosea 1:1] => Samaria?
• Amos (760 B.C.) [Amos 1:1] => Bethel
• Isaiah (730 B.C.) [2 Kings 19:2; 20:1; 2 Chronicles 26:22; 32:20, 32; Isaiah 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Micah (730 B.C.) [Jeremiah 26:18; Micah 1:1] => Moresheth
• Nahum (650 B.C.) [Nahum 1:1] => Elkosh (Capernaum?)
• Zephaniah (630 B.C.) [Zephaniah 1:1] => Jerusalem?
• Huldah (630 B.C.) [2 Kings 22:14] => Jerusalem
• Habakkuk (600 B.C.) [Habakkuk 1:1; 3:1] => Jerusalem?
• Ezekiel (592 B.C.) [Ezekiel 1:3] => Babylonia/Chebar River
• Uriah (600 B.C.) [Jeremiah 26:20] => Kiriath-jearim
• Jeremiah (587 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 36:12; Jeremiah 1:1; 19:14] => Jerusalem
• Obadiah (586 B.C.) [Obadiah 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Daniel (560 B.C.) [Daniel 7:1; Matthew 24:15] => Babylon
• Haggai (520 B.C.) [Ezra 5:1; Haggai 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Zechariah (520 B.C.) [Ezra 5:1; Zechariah 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Malachi (432 B.C.) [Malachi 1:1] => Jerusalem?