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Ezra 6:15

They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adar;   Liberality;   Month;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Industry;   Months;   Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aram;   Darius;   Ezra;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Persia;   Temple;   Zechariah;   Zechariah, book of;   Zerubbabel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Exile;   Moon;   Temple, the Second;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Darius;   Dedication, Feast of;   Ezra, the Book of;   Jerusalem;   Jeshua;   Persia;   Regem Melech;   Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Chronology of the Biblical Period;   Ezra, Book of;   High Priest;   Jerusalem;   Malachi;   Persia;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adar;   Darius;   Ezra, Book of;   Haggai;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Time;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dari'us;   Dedication, Feast of;   Judah, the Kingdom of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Darius;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Per'sia;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adar (1);   Captivity;   Haggai;   Maccabees, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adar;   Sabbatical Year and Jubilee;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
Hebrew Names Version
This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Daryavesh the king.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
New Century Version
The Temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year Darius was king.
Amplified Bible
This temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
New American Standard Bible
Now this temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar; it was the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
World English Bible
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And this house was finished the thirde day of the moneth Adar, which was the sixt yeere of the reigne of King Darius.
Legacy Standard Bible
And this house was brought to completion on the third day of the month Adar; it was the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
Berean Standard Bible
And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
Contemporary English Version
On the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the rule of Darius, the temple was finished.
Complete Jewish Bible
This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Daryavesh the king.
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar. That was in the sixth year of the rule of King Darius.
George Lamsa Translation
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar (March), which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Good News Translation
They finished the Temple on the third day of the month Adar in the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Darius.
Lexham English Bible
This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
Literal Translation
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they perfourmed the house vnto the thirde daye of the moneth Adar, that was the sixte yeare of the reigne of kynge Darius.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And this house was finished the third day of the moneth Adar, euen in the sixt yere of the raigne of king Darius.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
And this honse was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixt yere of the reigne of Darius the king.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they finished this house by the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
English Revised Version
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thei performyden this hows of God `til to the thridde dai of the monethe Adar, which is the sixte yeer of the rewme of king Darius.
Update Bible Version
And this house was finished on the twenty-third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New King James Version
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.
New Living Translation
The Temple was completed on March 12, during the sixth year of King Darius's reign.
New Life Bible
The house of God was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of King Darius.
New Revised Standard
and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And this house was finished, by the third day of the month Adar, - the which was the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.
Revised Standard Version
and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Young's Literal Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
This temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar; it was the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Contextual Overview

13 Then Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and their colleagues acted accordingly—with precision, just as Darius the king had given instructions. 14 The elders of the Jews continued building and prospering, while at the same time Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo continued prophesying. They built and brought it to completion by the command of the God of Israel and by the command of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia. 15 They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. 16 The people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—observed the dedication of this temple of God with joy. 17 For the dedication of this temple of God they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. 18 They appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their divisions over the worship of God at Jerusalem, in accord with the book of Moses. 19 The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 20 The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues the priests, and for themselves. 21 The Israelites who were returning from the exile ate it, along with all those who had joined them in separating themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to seek the Lord God of Israel. 22 They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the Lord had given them joy and had changed the opinion of the king of Assyria toward them, so that he assisted them in the work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3489, bc 515

Adar: Esther 3:7, Esther 3:13, Esther 8:12, Esther 9:1, Esther 9:15, Esther 9:17, Esther 9:19, Esther 9:21

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:38 - finished 1 Kings 7:51 - was ended Ezra 5:16 - it is not finished Ezra 9:9 - to set up Nehemiah 6:15 - wall Ecclesiastes 9:10 - thy hand Zechariah 1:1 - the eighth Zechariah 1:16 - my house Zechariah 4:7 - shoutings Zechariah 4:9 - his hands Zechariah 7:1 - the fourth

Cross-References

Genesis 7:20
The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.
Deuteronomy 3:11
Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaites. (It is noteworthy that his sarcophagus was made of iron. Does it not, indeed, still remain in Rabbath of the Ammonites? It is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide according to standard measure.)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar,.... The twelfth month of the year with the Jews, and answers to part of our February and part of March:

which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king; four years after the decree came forth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“Adar” was the twelfth or last month of the Jewish year, corresponding nearly with our March. The sixth year of Darius was 516-515 B.C.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. This house was finished — The sixth year of Darius mentioned here was about A.M. 3489, twenty years after the foundation had been laid by Zerubbabel, under the reign of Cyrus.


 
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