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.
Ver. 15. And this house was finished] About fifteen years after that the foundation had been laid, or twenty at most. The Jews therefore either were out in their account, John 2:20, Forty and six years was this temple in building; or else they meant it of Herod's temple, which was long in building and beautifying, whereby he sought to ingratiate with the Jews, which yet he could never do.