Regem-melech
When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and
Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,...
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re'-gem-me'-lek, re'-gem-mel'-ek (reghem melekh): One of a
deputation sent to inquire concerning the propriety of
continuing the commemoration of the destruction of the temple
by holding a fast (Zec 7:2). The text of the passage is in
disorder. The name may mean "friend of the king"; hence, some
have sought to remove the difficulty by interpre...
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-A captive sent as a messenger from the Jews in Babylon to
Jerusalem
Zec 7:2...
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(friend of the king). The names of Sherezer and Regem-melech
occur in an obscure passage of Zechariah. Zec 7:2 They were
sent on behalf of some of the captivity to make inquiries at
the temple concerning fasting (B.C. 617.)...
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friend of the king, one of the two messengers sent by the
exiled
Jews to Jerusalem in the time of Darius (Zech. 7:2) to
make
inquiries at the temple....
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("the king's official") (Zechariah 7:2). Sent by Jews of the
country (Zechariah 7:5) to "the house of God" (Bethel) or
congregation at Jerusalem. Beth-el is here used for Beth-
Jehovah; the religious authorities, not "the house of
Jehovah" (named in Zechariah 7:3), are meant. The temple was
not actually completed until two years later (Ezra 6:1...
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he that stones the king; purple of the king...
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