Ezra Chapter 6 verse 15 Holy Bible
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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And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.
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And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.
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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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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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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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And this house hath gone out till the third day of the month Adar, that is `in' the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - The house was finished on the third day of the month Adar. Haggai (Haggai 1:15) gives the exact day of the recommencement of the work as the twenty-fourth of Elul in Darius's second year. Ezra here gives the exact day of the completion. From Zerubbabel's laying of the foundation (Ezra 3:10), the time that had elapsed was twenty-one years. From the recommencement under the inspiriting influence of the two prophets, the time was only four years, five months, and ten days. DEDICATION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE (Ezra 6:16-18). Following the example of Solomon, who had solemnly "dedicated" the first temple (1 Kings 8:63), and had offered on the occasion a sacrifice unexampled for its magnitude in the whole of Jewish history (ibid.), Zerubbabel now, under the advice of two prophets, inaugurated the new building with a similar ceremony. In "the day of small things" it was not possible for him to emulate Solomon's magnificence in respect of the number of victims. Solomon had sacrificed 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. Zerubbabel's means only enabled him to make an offering of 712 animals, more than half of them lambs. He did, however, according to his ability; and God, who accepts all our endeavours according to that we have, and not according to that we have not, was content to receive graciously the humble offering made to him, and to bless the building thus inaugurated with a glory unknown to the first temple. The Lord himself, the Messenger of the covenant, so long sought by his people, suddenly came to this temple (Malachi 3:1) - came to it, and frequented it, and taught in it, and gave it a dignity and a majesty far beyond the first temple, which possessed indeed the Shechinah, but was once, and once only, vouchsafed a brief manifestation of the actual Divine presence (2 Chronicles 7:1).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) The third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year.--The event around which this part of the history revolves is dated with due care; it was on the third day of the last month of the ecclesiastical year, B.C. 516-515. Haggai (Haggai 1:15) gives the exact date of the re-commencement: the time therefore was four years five months and ten days. But, dating from the first foundation (Ezra 3:10), no less than twenty-one years had elapsed.
