^2 [a]These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, ^[b]Seraiah, ^[c]Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, ^[d]Mispar, Bigvai, ^[e]Rehum, and Baanah.

The number of the men of the people of Israel:

The Commission to Rebuild the Temple

1 In the ^(A)second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of ^[a]Yahweh came by the hand of ^(B)Haggai the prophet to ^(C)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^(D)governor of Judah, and to ^(E)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

² “Speak now to ^(A)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^(B)governor of Judah, and to ^(C)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the ^(D)remnant of the people saying,