Haggai 1:15

They started work on September 21st, during the second year that Darius was the king.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

In Context

14So Yahweh motivated Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the other people to want to rebuild the temple of our God, the Commander of the armies of angels. They gathered together and started to work to rebuild it.

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Cross References

Haggai 1:1I am, Haggai, a prophet. I received a message from Yahweh on August 29th, during the second year that Darius was the king of Persia. I told this message to Shealtiel’s son Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, and to Jehozadak’s son Jeshua, the Supreme Priest.

Haggai 2:10On December 18 of that year, Yahweh gave another message to me, the prophet Haggai.

Matthew Henry on Haggai 1:13-15

The People's Obedience. ( b. c. 520.) 12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord . 13 Then spake Haggai the Lord 's messenger in the Lord 's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord . 14 And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,… Read the whole commentary →

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