Son — Adoptive son to Shealtiel, being of the royal line, but by nature, son of Pedaiah. Governor — Appointed to this by the Persian king, over the remnant returned out of Babylon. Joshua — A type of the great deliverer; one Joshua leads them into Canaan, another restores the temple.
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Haggai 1:1
1 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 bya Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,