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SHESHBAZZAR

(Heb. šešbaṣṣar;
Akk. Sin-ab-uṣur)

The “prince of Judah” (Ezra 1:8), the first Babylonian governor of Judah charged with rebuilding the temple (5:15); the titles may have been more honorific than precise. Apparently he did begin the project during the reign of Cyrus (i.e., before 530 b.c.e.), but was unable to complete it (Ezra 5:16). That he is not mentioned in Haggai or Zechariah is not surprising, given at least Zechariah’s insistence that Zerubbabel had founded and would complete the temple. Some scholars equate Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel, but that is unlikely. If he is the same as the Shenazzar mentioned in 1 Chr. 3:18, he was Zerubbabel’s uncle.

Paul L. Redditt






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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