Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the Lord: twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. In this manner the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.
Ezra 6:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of King Darius. Catholic Public Domain Version And they completed this house of God on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the Lord: twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. In this manner the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.
Now the construction of God’s house in Jerusalem had stopped and remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.
Then this same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of God’s house in Jerusalem. It has been under construction from that time until now, but it has not been completed.
Though we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings, giving us relief, so that we can rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people #– #young and old, women and children #– #and plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
In the first month, the month of Nisan, in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year, the pur #– #that is, the lot #– #was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month, the month Adar.
This would take place on a single day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.
The king’s command and law went into effect on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar. On the day when the Jews’ enemies had hoped to overpower them, just the opposite happened. The Jews overpowered those who hated them.
The Jews in Susa assembled again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and killed three hundred men in Susa, but they did not seize any plunder.
They fought on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar and rested on the fourteenth, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing.
This explains why the rural Jews who live in villages observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a time of rejoicing and feasting. It is a holiday when they send gifts to one another.
He ordered them to celebrate the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar every year
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo:
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: In mercy, I have returned to Jerusalem; my house will be rebuilt within it #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies #– #and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.
‘Zerubbabel’s hands have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you.