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Tattenai

Persian governor of a province west of the Euphrates River who opposed the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple and walls under Zerubbabel during the postexilic period (Ezr 5:3, 6; 6:6, 13).

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)The classic article on this subject

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