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Sheshbazzar was a member of the House of David.

Biography

Sheshbazzar is very likely to be identified with "Shenazzar, the son of Jeconiah the captive" (1 Chr 3:17-18). He was the hostage king of Judah at the court of Babylon, when Cyrus took power in 539 BCE. To him, the Persian King returned "the vessels of the house of Yhwh that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods (Ezra 1:7) and allowed him to go back to Jerusalem, as governor of Judah (5:14). It was Sheshbazzar who "laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem" (Ezra 5:16; 1 Esdr 6:20; Ant 11:93). The local population of Judah and Benjamin and "all their neighbors" enthusiastically welcomed the returned king and "aided" the projects of construction "with silver vessels, with gold, with good, with animals, and with valuable gifts, besides all that was freely offered" (Ezra 1:5-6).

However, Sheshbazzar's restoration of the pre-exilic order was never completed, under Cyrus and Cambyses II. When 18 years later, under Darius, a new wave of returnees left Babylon, this time they would be under the dual leadership of the Davidic Zerubbabel and the Zadokite Joshua.

Sheshbazzar in ancient sources

Ezra

1:8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

5:14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;

5:16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.

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 Sheshbazzar is very likely to be identified with "Shenazzar, the son of [[Jehoiachin|Jeconiah]] the captive" (1 Chr 3:17-18). He was the hostage king of Judah at the court of Babylon, when [[Cyrus]] took power in 539 BCE. To him, the Persian King returned "the vessels of the house of Yhwh that [[Nebuchadnezzar]] had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods (Ezra 1:7) and allowed him to go back to Jerusalem, as governor of Judah (5:14). It was Sheshbazzar who "laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem" (Ezra 5:16; 1 Esdr 6:20; Ant 11:93). The local population of Judah and Benjamin and "all their neighbors" enthusiastically welcomed the returned king and "aided" the projects of construction "with silver vessels, with gold, with good, with animals, and with valuable gifts, besides all that was freely offered" (Ezra 1:5-6).
-However, Sheshbazzar's restoration of the pre-exilic order was never completed, under Cyrus and Cambyses. When 18 years later, under Darius, a new wave of returnees left Babylon, this time they would be under the dual leadership of the Davidic [[Zerubbabel]] and the Zadokite [[Joshua]].
+However, Sheshbazzar's restoration of the pre-exilic order was never completed, under [[Cyrus]] and [[Cambyses II]]. When 18 years later, under [[Darius]], a new wave of returnees left Babylon, this time they would be under the dual leadership of the Davidic [[Zerubbabel]] and the Zadokite [[Joshua]].
 ==Sheshbazzar in ancient sources==