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Easton's Bible Dictionary
O sun-god, defend the lord! ( Ezra 1:8 , 1:11 ), probably
another name for Zerubbabel (q.v.), Ezra 2:2 ; Haggai 1:12 , 1:14 ; Zechariah
4:6 , 4:10.
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
joy in tribulation; joy of the vintage
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(worshipper of fire), The Chaldean or Persian name given
to Zerubbabel in ( Ezra 1:8 , 1:11 ; 6:14 , 6:18 ) [ZERUBBABEL]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
shesh-baz'-ar (shesh-batstsar or sheshbatstsar):
Sheshbazzar is the Hebrew or Aramaic form of the Babylonian Shamash-aba-ucur,
or Shamash-bana-ucur: "Oh Shamash, protect the father." It is possible that the
full name was Shamash-ban-zeri-Babili-ucur, "Oh Shamash, protect the father (builder)
of the seed of Babylon." (See Zerubbabel, and Compare the Babylonian names Ashur-banaucur,
Ban-ziri, Nabu-ban-ziri, Shamash-ban-apli, Shamash-apil-ucur, Shamash-ban-achi,
and others in Tallquist's Neubabylonisches Namenbuch, and the Aramaic names on
numbers 35 , 44 , 36 , and 45 of Clay's Aramaic Dockets.) If this latter was the
full name, there would be little doubt that Sheshbazzar may have been the same
person as Zerubbabel, since the former is called in Ezra 5:14 the governor of
Judah, and the latter is called by the same title in Haggai 1:1 , 14 ; 2:2 , 21.
It is more probable, however, that Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel were different persons,
and that Sheshbazzar was governor of Judah in the time of Cyrus and Zerubbabel
in that of Darius. It is possible that Sheshbazzar came to Jerusalem in the time
of Cyrus and laid the foundations, and that Zerubbabel came later in the time
of Darius Hystaspis and completed the building of the temple (compare Ezra 2:68
; 4:2 ; Haggai 1:14).
According to Ezra 1:8 Sheshbazzar was the prince (Hannasi) of Judah into whose
hands Cyrus put the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had
brought forth out of Jerusalem and had put in the house of his gods. It is further
said in 1:11 that Sheshbazzar brought these vessels with them of the captivity
which he brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem. In Ezra 5:14 f it is said that
these vessels had been delivered by Cyrus unto one whose name was Sheshbazzar,
whom he had made governor (pechah), and that Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations
of the house of God which was in Jerusalem.
See SANABASSAR.
R. Dick Wilson
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