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Dec 2, 2016 · 1. Zechariah is a priest. A priest is someone whose responsibilities included offering sacrifices and taking care of the Temple of the Lord, and blessing the Lord’s name (1 Chr 23:13). One of their duties was to make sure that incense was burning before the Lord at all times.
In the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke (1:67–79), and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:36).
Oct 10, 2024 · Zechariah, John the Baptist's father, was a holy and upright priest of the Jerusalem temple who had his prayers miraculously answered in his old age.
- Jack Zavada
Oct 25, 2023 · One was an Old Testament prophet who prophesied in the days of Haggai and who wrote the book of Zechariah (Ezra 5:1; Zechariah 1:1). This prophet is also mentioned by Jesus as having been murdered by the rebellious and disobedient Jews of his day (Matthew 23:35).
Jul 22, 2022 · We know little about Zechariah personally except that he was a priest as well as a prophet and was a contemporary of Zerubbabel and the prophet Haggai. Zechariah lived during the time of Judah’s restoration, when the exiles had returned from Babylon and were rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem, around 520 to 470 BC.
Jul 21, 2024 · In the Old Testament, Zechariah was not only a prophet but also a priest from a Hebrew priestly family. He served as a priest in the second temple of Jerusalem after the exiles returned to Judah. Zechariah is best known as “the father of John the Baptist” as told in the New Testament.
He was born in Babylon of the tribe of Levi, thus a priest as well as a prophet (Neh 12:1, 4, 7, 10, 12, 16). Ezra calls him the son of Iddo, prob. because his father Berechiah died early, and he attained to the position of head of the household and successor to his grandfather.
