# Zerubbabel

Source: https://enocharchive.com/characters/zerubbabel (Enoch Archive).

Zerubbabel was the son of Salathiel born in Babel. He took to wife Malkath the daughter of Ezra the scribe but no son was born to him. Cyrus took his sister to wife and made her queen according to the law of the Persians.

At her insistence Cyrus gathered the children of Israel and commanded Zerubbabel to take them and go up to Jerusalem in peace to rebuild the city of their fathers. The children of Israel went up from Babel and Zerubbabel became king over them with Joshua the son of Yozadak the son of Aaron as high priest in the second year of Cyrus. Through this sister the seed of Cyrus was received into the seed of David.

**books:** The Cave of Treasures