Ezra 6:15
Good News Translation
They finished the Temple on the third day of the month Adar in the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Darius.

New Revised Standard Version
and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Contemporary English Version
On the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the rule of Darius, the temple was finished.

New American Bible
They completed this house on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.

A.

3489. B.C.

515. Adar

Esther 3:7,13 In the first month (which is called Nisan) in the twelfth year of the reign of Assuerus, the lot was cast into an urn, which in Hebrew is called Phur, before Aman, on what day and what month the nation of the Jews should be destroyed: and there came out the twelfth month, which is called Adar. . . .

Esther 8:12 And one day of revenge was appointed through all the provinces, to wit, the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar.

Esther 9:1,15,17,19,21 So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have said above is called Adar, when all the Jews were designed to be massacred, and their enemies were greedy after their blood, the case being altered, the Jews began to have the upper hand, and to revenge themselves of their adversaries. . . .

Context
The Temple Completed
14And the ancients of the Jews built, and prospered according to the prophecy of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of Addo: and they built and finished, by the commandment of the God of Israel, and by the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of the Persians. 15And they were finishing this house of God, until the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of king Darius.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:63
And Solomon slew victims of peace offerings, which he sacrificed to the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep so the king, and all the children of Israel, dedicated the temple of the Lord.

Ezra 5:16
Then came this same Sassabasar, and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it is in building, and is not yet finished.

Esther 3:7
In the first month (which is called Nisan) in the twelfth year of the reign of Assuerus, the lot was cast into an urn, which in Hebrew is called Phur, before Aman, on what day and what month the nation of the Jews should be destroyed: and there came out the twelfth month, which is called Adar.

Zechariah 1:1
In the eighth month, in the second year of king Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying:

Zechariah 1:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem in mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts: and the building line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

Zechariah 4:9
The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundations of this house, and his hands shall finish it: and you shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me to you.

Ezra 6:14
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