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
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.
Jeconiah, also known as Coniah and as Jehoiachin, was the nineteenth and penultimate king of Judah who was dethroned by the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II in the 6th century BCE and was taken into
Zerubbabel
…Akkadian: 𒆰𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠, romanized: Zērubābili), also spelled or Zorobabel, was a governor of the Achaemenid Empire's province of Judea and the grandson of Jeconiah, penultimate king of Judah. He is solely documented in the Hebrew Bible, in which he led the first group of Jews, numbering 42,360, who returned from…
Clay tablet. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription lists certain rations and mentions the name of Jeconiah (Jehoiachin), King of Judah, and the Babylonian captivity. From Babylon, Iraq, c. 580 BCE. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
Jews at Ezekiel's Tomb, al-Kifl, Iraq, 1932
Lunette in the Sistine Chapel of Jeconiah with Shealtiel and Josiah.
Jeconiah submitting to King Nebuchadnezzar II (Jeremiah 22:25–26. 'And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 And I will cast you out, and your mother that bare you, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die'. Illustration by William Hole, 1846–1917)