Joshua the High Priest

[a] The biblical text names Joshua among the leaders who inspired a momentum towards the reconstruction of the temple, in Ezra 5:2.

These included: (1) walk in the ways of God, (2) keeping the requirements (the law), (3) ruling God's house, (4) take charge of His courts; by fulfilling these duties, the angel granted access to the inner temple to Joshua and his fellow priest.

Joshua is also named alongside Persian governor Zerubbabel in the Book of Haggai as the high priest to whom that prophet directed his messages from God.

[3] Theologian Albert Barnes observes that "Haggai addresses these two, the one of the royal, the other of the priestly, line, as jointly responsible for the negligence of the people".

[4] In 1825, the traditional tomb of Joshua was reported to have been found at "one hour's distance from Baghdad".