One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Mithredath. Every Mithredath in the Bible
person
Mithredath
מִתְרְדָת
Mithredath was one of the Persian officials who wrote a letter to King Artaxerxes, accusing the Jews of rebuilding Jerusalem's walls.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 4:7
- last named
- Ezra 4:7
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Mithredath?
Mithredath is mentioned in Ezr.4.7 as one of the Persian officials who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem during the reign of King Artaxerxes. Along with Bishlam, Tabeel, and the rest of their associates, Mithredath wrote a letter to the king, accusing the Jews of rebuilding the city walls and expressing concern that this would lead to rebellion against the Persian Empire.
The letter was written in Aramaic and translated, indicating that it was an official document sent to the Persian court. Mithredath and his colleagues urged the king to search the historical records to verify that Jerusalem had a history of rebellion and that allowing the city to be rebuilt would be detrimental to the interests of the empire.
As a result of this letter, King Artaxerxes issued a decree ordering the Jews to stop their work on the city walls. This opposition from Mithredath and the other officials effectively halted the rebuilding efforts in Jerusalem for a time, until the reign of King Darius when the Jews were allowed to resume their work.
Mithredath's actions demonstrate the political challenges faced by the Jewish people as they sought to rebuild their homeland and restore their religious practices in the face of opposition from local officials and neighboring peoples.
Relations
Direct connections
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Stands in the same events as
- Jerusalem1 event
- Artaxerxes1 event
- Rehum1 event
- Rest Of Associates1 event
- Shimshai1 event
- Bishlam1 event
- Tabeel1 event
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
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The pattern
Where Mithredath is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezra (1).
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