Joshua: Also Called Jeshua: Assists Zerubbabel in Restoring the Temple

By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.

When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel, …

Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.

In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating

“Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and also to the remnant of the people. Ask them,