The second temple is completed
With Darius's backing, the temple was finished and dedicated with joy, seventy years after the first temple was destroyed, and the returnees kept Passover.
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.
Ezra 6:15 (World English Bible)
When the governor Tattenai questioned their right to build, a search of the Persian archives found Cyrus's original decree. Darius ordered that the work be paid for from royal taxes.
This second temple, later greatly expanded by Herod, is the one Jesus taught in.
Places
JerusalemBabylonEuphratesPersiaBeyond the RiverMediaEcbatana
Ancient witnesses outside the Bible
Historical sources, not Scripture.
- 1 Esdras 7:1–15 — as 1 Esdras retells it
Dating notes
The third of Adar in Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15), 515 BC; conventional dating gives 516/515 BC.