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Ezra 6:15

in Ezra 6

And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

This verse in Ezra 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
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.

This site's exposition

so they did speedily

on Ezra 6:13-15

Tatnai and his companions obey speedily, exactly as Darius sent, and the delay that once stopped the work becomes the channel that funds it. Verse 14 names the true cause behind the king's paperwork: the elders builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, the narrative anchor for both prophetic books. Wesley reads the same verse against any thought that Darius acted from mere kindness, tracing the success instead to God, who by his prophets required the work and then moved a pagan king's heart to fund it. The house is finished on the third day of Adar, in the sixth year of Darius, four years after the decree that restarted the work.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices
“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.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

on Ezra 6:13-15

Then Tatnai . . . did speedily--A concurrence of favorable events is mentioned as accelerating the restoration of the temple and infusing a new spirit and energy into the workmen, who now labored with unabating assiduity till it was brought to a completion. Its foundation was laid in April, 536 B.C.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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,…

    it leads to

    • 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…

    • 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.

    • Psalms 30:11

      You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

    • Revelation 11:18

      The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your…

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 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,…

    • Esther 3:13–15

      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…

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Esther 9:10

      They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

    • Esther 8:11

      By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezra

Ezra Kneels in Prayer — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ezra Kneels in Prayer — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.