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.
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- 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.
- BSB And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
- 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 first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
- Esth 9:21To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
- Esth 9:19Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
- Esth 9:1Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
- Esth 9:15For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
- Esth 9:17On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
- Esth 3:13And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
- Esth 8:12Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
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