Haggai 2:15
Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 520 BC
WHEN
520 BC
dated by the text itself
The most precisely dated book in the Bible.
WHO RULED
- Darius I king of Persia 522-486 BC
SOURCES
- date — Haggai 1:1 dates itself to the day: the second year of King Darius, the sixth month, the first day. Four of the book's five messages carry their own date.
- Darius I — Behistun Inscription, written at his order in three languages; Herodotus III
SEE ALSO
- Haggai 1:5 Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Ezra 3:10 When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their…
- Ezra 4:24 Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Haggai 1:7 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Haggai 2:18 Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
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