Read Haggai 1.1-15a
1.1-15a. The charge to rebuild the Temple.
Haggai's first speech directs those who have returned to Jerusalem from exile to begin reconstruction of the Temple.
Verse 1. King Darius (522-486) is the third monarch of the Persian empire, of which Judah became a province when the Persian king Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 B.C.E.
The second year of Darius' reign is 520 B.C.E.
Zerubbabel, grandson of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah; 1 Chr 3.16-19), the king of Judah exiled to Babylon in 587 B.C.E. (2 Kings 2 24.8-17; 25.27-30), had returned to Judah with other exiles (Ezra 2.1-2).
Joshua's grandfather Seriah, chief priest of Jerusalem was killed when Jerusalem was conquered by the Babylonians (2 Kings 25.18-21), and Joshua's father, Jehozak, was deported to Babylon (1 Chr 6.14-15).
Verse 12. the remnant of the people refers to those who had returned to Judah from Babylonian exile (Jer 43.5).
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