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;
Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor. This was the Chaldean or Persian name of Zerubbabel (see the notes at Ezra 1:8; Ezra 1:11). "Governor" х pechaah (H6347)] - a prefect or governor in the Assyrian (2 Kings 18:24), Babylonian (Jeremiah 51:57), Median (Jeremiah 51:28), and particularly the Persian, empires (Esther 8:9; Esther 9:3), inferior in dignity and power to a satrap. The name, after the captivity, was applied to the governor of Judea (cf. Haggai 1:1-14; Malachi 1:8), but seldom in earlier times (cf. 1 Kings 10:15; 2 Chronicles 9:14).