Ezra 4:24-5:1
Contemporary English Version
Work on the Temple Starts Again
24 (A) The Jews were forced to stop work on the temple and were not able to do any more building until the year after Darius became king of Persia.[a] 5 1 (B) Then the Lord God of Israel told the prophets Haggai and Zechariah[b] to speak in his name to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. And they did.
Ezra 4:24-5:1
New International Version
24 Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius(A) king of Persia.
Tattenai’s Letter to Darius
5 Now Haggai(B) the prophet and Zechariah(C) the prophet, a descendant of Iddo, prophesied(D) to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
Ezra 6:14
Contemporary English Version
14 (A) With great success the Jewish leaders continued working on the temple, while Haggai and Zechariah encouraged them by their preaching. And so, the temple was completed at the command of the God of Israel and by the orders of kings Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes of Persia.[a]
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- 6.14 Artaxerxes of Persia: See the note at 4.7.
Ezra 6:14
New International Version
14 So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching(A) of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus,(B) Darius(C) and Artaxerxes,(D) kings of Persia.
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