The Temple Is Completed and Set Apart to God

¹³ The governor Tattenai and Shethar-Bozenai carried out King Darius’s order. And so did their friends. ¹⁴ The elders of the Jews continued to build the temple. They enjoyed great success because of the preaching of Haggai and Zechariah, the prophets. Zechariah belonged to the family line of Iddo. The people finished building the temple. That’s what the God of Israel had commanded them to do. Cyrus and Darius had given orders allowing them to do it. Later, Artaxerxes supplied many things that were needed in the temple. Those three men were kings of Persia. ¹⁵ So the temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar. It was in the sixth year that Darius was king.