Ezra 5:1

Ezra 5:1

Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.

a. NLT: At that time the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.

b. NIV: Now Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the prophet, a descendant of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.

c. YLT: And prophesied have the prophets, (Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo) unto the Jews who are in Judah and in Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel -- unto them.

d. Amplified Bible Classic: Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, Whose [Spirit] was upon them.

e. Septuagint: And Aggaeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied a prophesy to the Jews in Juda and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even to them.

f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: aggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo the prophets prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, about them.

1. “Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo…”

a. Then the prophets [5029 * nbiy'] [Strong: (Aramaic) corresponding to 5030; a prophet:--prophet.]

b. Haggai [2292 * Chaggay] [Strong: from 2282; festive; Chaggai, a Heb. prophet:--Haggai.]

c. the prophet [5029 * nbiy'] [Strong: (Aramaic) corresponding to 5030; a prophet:--prophet.]

d. and Zechariah [2148 * Zkaryah; or Zkaryahuw] [Strong: from 2142 and 3050; Jah has remembered; Zecarjah, the name of twenty-nine Israelites:--Zachariah, Zechariah.]

e. the son [1247 * bar] [Strong: (Aramaic) corresponding to 1121; a son, grandson, etc.:--X old, son.]

f. of Iddo [5714 * `Iddow; or iIddowo; or tIddiy] [Strong: from 5710; timely; Iddo (or Iddi), the name of five Israelites:--Iddo.]

2. “…prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.”

a. prophesied [5013 * nba'] [Strong: (Aramaic) corresponding to 5012:--prophesy.]

b. unto [5922 * `al] [Strong: (Aramaic) corresponding to 5921:--about, against, concerning, for, (there-)fore, from, in, X more, of, (there-, up-)on, (in-)to, + why with.]

c. the Jews [3062 * Yhuwda'iy] [Strong: (Aramaic) patrial from 3061; a Jehudaite (or Judaite), i.e. Jew:--Jew.]

d. in Judah [3061 * Yhuwd] [Strong: (Aramaic) contracted from a form corresponding to 3063; properly, Judah, hence, Judaea:--Jewry, Judah, Judea.]

e. and Jerusalem [3390 * Yruwshalem] [Strong: (Chald)]

f. in the name [8036 * shum shoom (Aramaic) corresponding to 8034:--name.]

g. of the God [426 * 'elahh] [Strong: (Aramaic) corresponding to 433; God:--God, god.]

h. of Israel [3479 * Yisra'el] [Strong: (Aramaic) corresponding to 3478:--Israel.]

i. unto [5922 * `al] [Strong: (Aramaic) corresponding to 5921:--about, against, concerning, for, (there-)fore, from, in, X more, of, (there-, up-)on, (in-)to, + why with.]

1). We see from this verse that Haggai and Zechariah were contemporaries and probably friends. What was prophesied to the Jews at Judah and Jerusalem was a rebuke because they had stopped rebuilding the Temple and had been focusing on their own houses.

a). Haggai 1:1:15 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

1:2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built.

1:3 Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

1:4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

1:5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

1:6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

1:7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

1:8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.

1:9 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

1:10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

1:11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

1:12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lordtheir God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord.

1:13 Then spake Haggai the Lord's messenger in the Lord's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord.

1:14 And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,

1:15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

b). It was only after the rebuke that they again began to rebuild the Temple.