| Ezra 1:8
| Now Cyrus, king of Persia, brought them forth by the hand of Mithridates, the son of Gazabar, and numbered them to Sassabasar, the prince of Juda.
| Gazabar means, "the treasurer." (Hebrew; Syriac; Calmet; Protestants; 3 Esdras 2:10.) (Haydock) --- Son is not in Hebrew, etc., (Menochius) and must be omitted. (Tirinus) --- Sassabasar. This was another name for Zorobabel, (Challoner) given by the Chaldeans, as they changed the name of Daniel into Baltassar. (Eusebius, Praep. Evan. 11:3.) (Tirinus) --- But others think that this was the Persian "governor (Junius) of Judea," (3 Esdras) as one resided at Jerusalem, till the days of Nehemias, 2 Esdras 5:14. It does not appear that Zorobabel was invested with this dignity, before the reign of Darius Hystaspes, Aggeus 2:24. (Calmet)
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