Zechariah 1:7

On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo.

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHEN
520-518 BC

WHEN

520-518 BC

dated by the text itself

WHO RULED

  • Darius I king of Persia 522-486 BC
SOURCES
  • date — Zechariah 1:1 dates itself by the eighth month of the second year of Darius.
  • Darius I — Behistun Inscription, written at his order in three languages; Herodotus III

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