The second year. — The record here returns to Ezra 4:5, with more specific indication of time. The suspension of the general enterprise — called “the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem” — lasted nearly two years. But it must be remembered that the altar was still the centre of a certain amount of worship.
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Ezra 4:24
24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.