Ezra 6:13-15

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The Temple Is Dedicated

¹³Governor Tattenai, Shethar Bozenai, and their advisors carefully obeyed King Darius. ¹⁴^(A) With great success the Jewish leaders continued working on the temple, while Haggai and Zechariah encouraged them by their preaching. And so, the temple was completed at the command of the God of Israel and by the orders of kings Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes of Persia.^[a] ¹⁵On the third day of the month of Adar^[b] in the sixth year of the rule of Darius,^[c] the temple was finished.

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Footnotes

6.14 Artaxerxes of Persia: See the note at 4.7.
6.15 Adar: The twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-February to about mid-March.
6.15 sixth year … Darius: 515 b.c.