Joshua the High Priest
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Joshua the son of Jehozadak was the first High Priest during the reconstruction of the Jewish Temple after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity.
Joshua as imagined by Guillaume Rouille, from his 1553 work containing woodcut portraits in medallion form, Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum.
Zerubbabel
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He is solely documented in the Hebrew Bible, in which he led the first group of Jews, numbering 42,360, who returned from the Babylonian captivity in the first year of Cyrus the Great, the king of the
Joshua the High Priest
…vision also functioned to purify Joshua and to sanctify him for the preparations of his priestly duties. Joshua is also named alongside Persian governor Zerubbabel in the Book of Haggai as the high priest to whom that prophet directed his messages from God. Theologian Albert Barnes observes that "Haggai addresses…
Zerubbabel and Cyrus (1650s) by Jacob van Loo; Zerubbabel (left) shows the Persian king Cyrus the Great the plan for a rebuilt Jerusalem
Zerubbabel from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum (1553)
Praise of Truth by Phillips Galle after Gerard Groenning 1638.
Zerubbabel Before Darius by Nikolaus Knüpfer, Hermitage Museum.