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The temple is rebuilt

The temple is rebuilt is dated 515 BC. It is told in Ezra 6:15.

And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Ezra 6:15 BSB
  1. a Adar is the twelfth month of the Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of February and March.

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning
515 BC
Traditional reckoning
515 BC
How it's dated
Persian reign years

Not in Theographic. The sixth year of Darius I.

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Sources: Ezra 6:15.

Where is it in the Bible?

Which verses connect to Ezra 6:15?

The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).

  1. Esther 3:74 votes

    In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

  2. to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar

  3. And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

  4. The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

  5. Esther 9:12 votes

    On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.

  6. On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.