Jehozadak

On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter, and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women, Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers.

They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Of the sons of Immer, Hanani and Zebadiah.

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

Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.

At the same time, Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the river, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure? They also asked them this, What are the names of the men who are building this building? But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius, and then an answer be returned by letter concerning it.

This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the river, and Shethar-Bozenai and his associates, the governors who were in the province beyond the river, sent to Darius the king.

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So the Lord sparked the enthusiasm of Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the enthusiasm of Jeshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the enthusiasm of the whole remnant of God's people.

They began to work on the house of their God and the Go- and the Lord of Heaven's army.

So Haggai, Bible says that as he preached, the people were enthusiastic.

Yes, Lord.

Among the sons of the priests who had married wrong wives were found of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak and his brothers.

His brothers, Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

You see, they could not be power couples because they had married the wrong wives.

These are the priests who had married pagan wives.

From the family of Jeshua, son of Jehozadak, and his brothers, Mesaiah, Eliezer, Jerub, and Godaliah.

They vowed to divorce their wives, and they each acknowledged their guilt by offering a ram as a guilt offering.

From the family of Emer, Hanani, and Zebediah.

Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.

These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

Dedication of the Wall of Jerusalem.

And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres.