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Berechiah

Time-period: ❺ David-fångenskapen (1000 – 586 f.Kr.)
Age: -
Alt. names/spellings: Berechiah
Father: Iddo



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Berechiah H1296
בֶּרֶכְיָה (Berechjah)
11 times in OT
Total    11 times

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  • Iddo
    Iddo
    • Berechiah

      order of birth not available

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    wife

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  • Is part of the ancestry of Christ
  • Ruler/leader
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Zec 1:1
  Interlinear
In the eighth month [Cheshvan – Oct/Nov] of the second year of King Darius' reign [520 BC, he was Persian king 522-486 BC], the word of the Lord (Yahweh) came to the prophet Zechariah [Hebr. Zechariah – meaning: 'God remembers'], son of Berechiah [meaning: 'The Lord blesses'], son of Iddo [meaning: 'His witness'].
[Zechariah's grandfather Iddo had returned from Babylon 16 years earlier (538 BC) under the leadership of Zerubbabel, see Neh. 12:1, 4. Zechariah was from a priestly family, see Neh. 12:12, 16. His ministry begins one month before Haggai receives his last vision, see Hag 2:10, 20. The events in Zech. 1–6 occur at the same time as the events in Ezra 4:24–6:13]
He [Zechariah] said:
Zec 1:7
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On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shvat [February 15, 519 BC], in the second year of the reign of King Darius [520-519 BC], the word of the Lord (Yahweh) came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo. [Three months after the prophetic address, see verse 1.] He [Zechariah] said: