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.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Adar, corresponding with our February and March. (Menochius)
In the latter month they celebrated the Passover, ver. 19.
Darius. Hence twenty years had elapsed from the first foundation. They might continue to embellish the temple other twenty-seven years, as the Jews assert; (John ii. 20,) unless they speak of the repairs made by Herod, (Baronius; Tirinus) or exaggerate, (Grotius) being under a mistake. (Salien, the year of the world 3537.)
