Event · Exile and Return
Haggai and Zechariah urge rebuilding
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Haggai and Zechariah urge rebuildingEzra 5:1–2520 BCE
After years of delay Haggai and Zechariah call the people to finish the temple, and the work begins again.
- Main passage Ezra 5:1–2
- Related Haggai 1:1–15Zechariah 1:1–6
- Place in the order
- Explicit biblical sequence Scripture itself gives the order of these events.
- Historical setting
- 520 BCE Approximate historical setting
Haggai 1:1 dates his first message to the second year of Darius I, 520 BCE.
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Ezra 5:1–2 WEB
1Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied to them in the name of the God of Israel. 2Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.