Ezra 5:14

EZRA—NOTE ON Ezra 5:14 Sheshbazzar was one of the early leaders of the returning exiles (see Ezra 1:8). Here he is called governor, a name applied to Tattenai himself in Ezra 5:3. The term could be used loosely, since Judah would not have had a “governor” on a par with the governor of the entire province Beyond the River (v. Ezra 5:6, etc.). Darius’s reply also refers to a “governor of the Jews” (Ezra 6:7), a name given to Zerubbabel in Haggai 1:1.