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Ezra 6:15
And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrative records the completion of the temple during the sixth year of King Darius’s reign, positioned between the elders’ successful rebuilding and the subsequent dedication ceremony.
The words — The Hebrew phrase וְשֵיצִיא בֵּיתָה דְנָה (ve-shēṣîṯ bêtāh dənāh) literally means “and it was brought forth, this house,” indicating the temple’s structural completion.
The thread — The month of Adar appears elsewhere in Scripture as a fixed calendar marker, such as in Esther 9:21, where it designates the days established for annual celebration.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition of God’s precise timing in fulfilling His promises through historical events and royal decrees.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- Esther 3:7 In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
- Esther 9:21 to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
- Esther 3:13 And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
- Esther 8:12 The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
- Esther 9:1 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
- Esther 9:15 On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
- Esther 9:17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.
- Esther 9:19 This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.