Zecharyah HaNavi
c. 550 BCE–c. 480 BCE · Biblical era · Babylonia (exile era)
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Zechariah son of Berechiah, grandson of Iddo (Zechariah 1:1), prophesied in Jerusalem alongside Chaggai to encourage the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 5:1, 6:14). His dated prophecies run from 520 to 518 BCE (Zechariah 1:1, 1:7, 7:1). After an opening call to return to God (Zechariah 1:3), his book presents a series of night visions - horsemen, a golden lampstand, a flying scroll - and includes the vision of the High Priest Yehoshua standing in filthy garments, accused by 'the Accuser' and defended by God as 'a brand plucked from the fire' (Zechariah 3:1-3). To the governor Zerubavel he gave the famous word 'Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit' (Zechariah 4:6). He promised that the fasts of mourning for Jerusalem would become festivals of joy (Zechariah 8:19), and the book ends with the hope that 'the LORD shall be One and His name One' (Zechariah 14:9). The Talmud counts him among the last three prophets (Yoma 9b).
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What they did here
Zechariah is the grandson of Iddo (Zechariah 1:1), and Iddo heads a priestly family listed among those who came up from Babylon with Zerubavel (Nehemiah 12:1, 12:4). That he himself was born in the exile is an inference from this lineage; the text does not say so.
About Babylonia (exile era)
Babylonia in the exile era refers to Mesopotamia (Iraq) during and after the Babylonian Exile, when the population of the Kingdom of Judah was deported by Nebuchadnezzar following the destruction of the First Temple (586 BCE). The biblical books of Ezekiel and Daniel are set among the exiles in Babylonia, and the Esther narrative unfolds in the Persian period that followed; this community became the seed of the great Babylonian Jewish center.
In Babylonia (exile era) at the same time
Daniel, Yehoshua the Kohen Gadol, Zerubavel, Governor of Judah
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Zecharyah HaNavi’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Daniel, Yehoshua the Kohen Gadol, Zerubavel, Governor of Judah, Chaggai HaNavi
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Zecharyah HaNavi’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn from recorded birth and death years (reign years for rulers whose lives are undated); where only one end of a life is known, a span of about 70 years is assumed.
Jewish world
- Tzidkiyahu ben Yoshiyahu (Zedekiah)· b. 618 BCE
- Ovadiah (Obadiah)· 610 BCE–540 BCE
- Malachi· 500 BCE–430 BCE
- Mordechai ben Yair (of Megillat Esther)· 500 BCE–420 BCE
- Esther (Hadassah), Queen of Persia· 495 BCE–450 BCE
- Ezra HaSofer (Ezra the Scribe)· 480 BCE–440 BCE
- Nechemiah ben Chakhalyah· 480 BCE–413 BCE
- Yoel ben Petuel (Joel)· 480 BCE–400 BCE
Luminaries & Explorers
Hindu world
Graeco-Roman world
Egyptian world
Buddhist world
Works
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