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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Regem-melech (Man living at the time of Exile and Return)
The people of Bethel sent him and Sherezer to Jerusalem in the fourth year of Darius. Their question for the priests and prophets was whether to keep on fasting for the temple's destruction.
The people of Bethel sent him and Sherezer to Jerusalem in the fourth year of Darius. Their question for the priests and prophets was whether to keep on fasting for the temple's destruction.
Regem-melech was one of two men, along with Sherezer, sent by the Jewish community at Bethel to Jerusalem in the fourth year of Darius to ask the priests and prophets whether the fasts commemorating the temple's destruction should continue now that the exile had ended (Zechariah 7:2). The question sparked the series of oracles that follow in Zechariah 7 and 8. Nothing else is known of him beyond this diplomatic mission.
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- Zechariah 7:2
