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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Zerubbabel. Every Zerubbabel in the Bible

    person · also Sheshbazzar

    Zerubbabel

    זְרֻבָּבֶ֫לΖοροβάβελ

    Zerubbabel (or Sheshbazzar), a descendant of David, led the first group of Jewish exiles back to Jerusalem from Babylon and oversaw the rebuilding of the temple.

    verses
    27
    first named
    1 Chronicles 3:19
    last named
    Matthew 1:13
    period
    Exile and Return
    tribe
    Judah

    Description

    Who was Zerubbabel?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Zerubbabel, also known as Sheshbazzar, was a descendant of King David who played a crucial role in the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon and the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. He is mentioned in various books of the Old Testament, including 1 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, and Zechariah. Zerubbabel led the first group of exiles back to Jerusalem under the decree of Cyrus, king of Persia. He is listed among the leaders who returned and is credited with laying the foundation of the temple. Despite facing opposition from the Samaritans and others, Zerubbabel, along with the prophets Haggai and Zechariah, encouraged the people to complete the rebuilding of the temple. He is also mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew, emphasizing his importance in the messianic lineage. Zerubbabel's leadership and dedication were instrumental in reestablishing Jewish worship in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Zerubbabel 10 of 24 entities the graph connects to Zerubbabel, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 9. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.ShealtielChild of · 11 versesKinshipIsrael3 events · 2,578 versesJudah2 events · 1,023 versesLORD4 events · 1,004 versesJerusalem4 events · 888 versesLevi2 events · 329 versesJoshua11 events · 21 versesHaggai2 events · 11 versesNehemiah3 events · 5 versesRehum2 events · 5 versesEventsZerubbabel

    The 10 best-attested of 24 are drawn. All 24 are listed below.

    Child of

    Father of

    Sibling of

    Stands in the same events as

    and 23 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Zerubbabel happens All 5 places the claims about Zerubbabel reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Jerusalem, Cherub, Immer, Tel-harsha, Tel-melah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Zerubbabel there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.JerusalemCherubImmerTel-harshaTel-melah
    Exile and ReturnAll 5 places the claims about Zerubbabel reach

    The pattern

    Where Zerubbabel 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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 27 verses across 6 of 66 books; 60 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSEZRA–NEHEMIAH13 VERSESHAGGAI–ZECHARIAH11 VERSES20 books and 483 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 27 verses across 6 of 66 books; 60 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSEZRA–NEHEMIAH13 VERSESHAGGAI–ZECHARIAH11 VERSES20 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Zerubbabel is named in 27 verses, and the name is written 28 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 60 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 27, across 6 books. The name is written 28 times in them.

    1. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      3:19

    2. Ezra10 verses

      1:81:112:23:23:84:24:35:25:145:16

    3. Nehemiah3 verses

      7:712:112:47

    4. Haggai7 verses

      1:11:121:142:22:42:212:23

    5. Zechariah4 verses

      4:64:74:94:10

    6. Matthew2 verses

      1:121:13

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Pedaiah and ShealtielHoshamaA descendant of King Jeconiah of Judah.via Pedaiah and ShealtielJekamiahDescendant of Jeconiah, a descendant of David.via Pedaiah and ShealtielMalchiramDescendant of King Jeconiah (Jehoiachin) of Judah.via Pedaiah and ShealtielNedabiahDescendant of King Jeconiah of Judahvia Pedaiah and ShealtielShenazzarDescendant of King Jeconiah (Jehoiachin) of Judahvia AbiudEliakimAncestor of Jesus in Matthew's genealogyvia ShealtielJehoiachinKing of Judah, son of Jehoiakimvia ShealtielZedekiahSon of Jeconiah, king of Judahvia HananiahArnanDescendant of David's son Solomon
    ElsewhereGenealogy of ZerubbabelEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

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