And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
Parallel translations
- WEB This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
- KJV And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
- NKJV Now the temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
- NASB Now this temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar; it was the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
- NLT The Temple was completed on March 12, during the sixth year of King Darius’s reign.
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Quick answer
The temple was completed in the sixth year of Darius. After decades of delay and opposition, God's house finally stood again.
Overview
The precise dating (the third of Adar, sixth year of Darius, around 516 BC) marks the fulfillment of the return's central goal. Roughly twenty years after the foundation was laid, the second temple is finished, vindicating the promises spoken through the prophets. This completed house, however, was only a shadow of the true and lasting dwelling of God with His people in Christ (Haggai 2:9).
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- Esth 3:7In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
- Esth 9:21to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
- Esth 9:19This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
- Esth 9:1On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
- Esth 9:15On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
- Esth 9:17This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.
- Esth 3:13And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
- Esth 8:12The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
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