Mispar (also known as Mispereth) was one of the Israelites who returned to Judah from the Babylonian exile together with Zerubbabel. He is mentioned in the list of those who returned in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. He is one of the many nameless heroes who contributed to the rebuilding of the Jewish community after the exile.
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Listed among those who returned from Babylon
Mispar is mentioned in the list of those who returned from the Babylonian exile to Jerusalem and Judah together with Zerubbabel.
2They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
In Nehemiah's parallel list of those who returned from exile, he is listed under the name Mispereth, showing that he was a recognized person among the returnees.
7They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Mispar was part of the first large group that returned from the Babylonian captivity under the leadership of Zerubbabel, a turning point in Israel's history.
1These are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.
2They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, so that the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he sent a proclamation throughout his whole kingdom, and also put it in writing:
2"This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
3Whoever among you belongs to his people—may his God be with him—let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem.
4And everyone who remains, wherever he lives, let the people of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem."
5Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—set out to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.