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Ezra 5:1

Ezra 5:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

am 3484, bc 520

Haggai: These are the same Haggai and Zechariah, whose writings we have among the twelve minor prophets; and, as a great part of them refer to the events here recorded, the reader will find it very profitable to compare them with the history.

Zechariah:

the son of Iddo: That is, "the grandson of Iddo;" for Zechariah was the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo.

in the name: ; ; ,

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