The third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year. — The event around which this part of the history revolves is dated with due care; it was on the third day of the last month of the ecclesiastical year, B.C. 516-515. Haggai (Haggai 1:15) gives the exact date of the re-commencement: the time therefore was four years five months and ten days. But, dating from the first foundation (Ezra 3:10), no less than twenty-one years had elapsed.
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Ezra 6:15
15 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.