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temple. He is probably the same as the “Zacharias son of Barachias” who was slain between the
temple and the altar. (Matthew 23:35) [Zacharias, No. 2] (B.C. 838.)
•A Kohathite Levite in the reign of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 34:12) (B.C. 628.)
•The leader of the sons of Pharosh who returned with Ezra. (Ezra 8:3) (B.C. 450.)
•Son of Behai. (Ezra 8:11)
•One of the chiefs of the people whom Ezra summoned in council at the river Ahava. (Ezra 8:16)
He stood at Ezra’s left hand when he expounded the law to the people. (Nehemiah 8:4) (B.C. 459.)
•One of the family of Elam who had married a foreign wife after the captivity. (Ezra 10:26)
(B.C.458.)
•Ancestor of Athaiah or Uthai. (Nehemiah 11:4)
•A Shilonite, descendant of Perez. (Nehemiah 11:5)
•A priest, son of Pashur. (Nehemiah 11:12)
•The representative of the priestly family of Iddo in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua. (Nehemiah
12:16) (B.C. 536.) possibly the same as Zechariah the prophet, the son of Iddo.
•One of the priests, son of Jonathan, who blew with the trumpets at the dedication of the city wall
by Ezra and Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 12:36,41) (B.C. 446.)
•A chief of the Reubenites at the time of the captivity by Tiglath-pileser. (1 Chronicles 5:7) (B.C.
740.)
•One of the priests who accompanied the ark from the house of Obed-edom. (1 Chronicles 15:24)
(B.C. 1043.)
•Son of Isshiah or Jesiah, a Kohathite Levite descended from Uzziel. (1 Chronicles 24:25) (B.C.
1043.)
•Fourth son of Hosah of the children of Merari. (1 Chronicles 26:11)
•A Manassite. (1 Chronicles 27:21,22)
•The father of Jahaziel. (2 Chronicles 20:14)
•One of the sons of Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 21:2)
•A prophet in the reign of Uzziah who appears to have acted as the king’s counsellor, but of whom
nothing is known. (2 Chronicles 26:5) (B.C. 807.)
•The father of Abijah or Abi, Hezekiah’s mother. (2 Chronicles 29:1)
•One of the family of Asaph in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 29:13) (B.C. 727.)
•One of the rulers of the temple in the reign of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 35:8) (B.C. 628.)
•The son of Jeberechiah, who was taken by the prophet Isaiah as one of the “faithful witnesses to
record,” when he wrote concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. (Isaiah 8:2) (B.C. 723.) He may have
been the Levite of the same name who in the reign of Hezekiah assisted in the purification of the
temple. (2 Chronicles 29:13) Another conjecture is that he is the same as Zechariah the father of
Abijah, the queen of Ahaz.
Zechariah, The Book Of
The book of Zechariah, in its existing form, consists of three principal parts, vis. chs. 1-8; chs.
9-11; chs. 12-14.
•The first of these divisions is allowed by the critics to be the genuine work of Zechariah the son
of Iddo. It consists, first, of a short introduction or preface in which the prophet announces his
commission; then of a series of visions, descriptive of all those hopes and anticipations of which
the building of the temple was the pledge and sure foundation and finally of a discourse, delivered
two years later, in reply to questions respecting the observance of certain established fasts.
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