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Joshua (Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻׁוּעַ Yəhōšūaʿ ), also spelled Yeshua (Hebrew: יֵשׁוּעַ Yēšūaʿ ) was the first High Priest at the reconstruction of the Jewish Temple after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity (Zechariah 6:9–14 and Ezra 3 in the Bible).
Jan 4, 2022 · Joshua the high priest was the spiritual leader who served alongside the Israelites and encouraged them as they worked to rebuild the house of the Lord (Haggai 1:13–15). God also used Joshua the high priest as a symbol of the future Messiah (Zechariah 3:8).
Jan 4, 2022 · God told the prophet Zechariah to place a crown on Joshua’s head: “Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak” (Zechariah 6:11). Joshua was already the high priest, and the prophet was to symbolically crown him king.
A vision of Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan accusing him. The LORD rebukes Satan and declares Joshua a firebrand snatched from the fire.
Joshua was Moses' successor and the leader of the Israelites in the conquest of Canaan. Learn about his name, his role, his achievements, and his legacy in the Bible and rabbinical literature.
Joshua the high priest (see note on Haggai 1:1). The name is written Joshua in Ezra 2:2 , etc. He was the first of the high priests after the Captivity, succeeding, as by hereditary right, his father Josedech, who died in Babylon.
Others deem it incongruous to make a high priest violate the decency of his office by officiating in unclean apparel. But the violation of propriety was a requirement of the vision, that thus the defilement of sin might be symbolical.
