"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 LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. (13) Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. (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, (15) In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king."
This Zerubbabel is a remarkable name. It means a stranger: from Zer and Babel, confusion; alluding to the Old Tower in the plains of Shinar. But his father's name is yet more so, Shealtiel; a compound word from Shealtu, I have asked, and El, God. Joshua is well known as being the same name in Hebrew, as Jesus in Greek, and both meaning a Saviour. There is somewhat very striking in what is here said, of the Lord's exciting the minds of those men, and all the people to the work. Reader! Recollect that scripture, Philippians 2:13, And learn from hence, an additional testimony of the truth of sovereign grace. Oh! how certain it is, that all the good that is done upon earth, the Lord doeth it himself!