¹² Then Zerubbabel^(A) son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant^(B) of the people obeyed^(C) the voice of the Lord their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared^(D) the Lord.

¹³ Then Haggai,^(E) the Lord’s messenger,^(F) gave this message of the Lord to the people: “I am with^(G) you,” declares the Lord. ¹⁴ So the Lord stirred up^(H) the spirit of Zerubbabel^(I) son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak,^(J) the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant^(K) of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God, ¹⁵ on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month.^(L)

The Promised Glory of the New House

In the second year of King Darius,^(M)