Ezra 6

Chapter 6

6:6  Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:

your companions

Chald. "their societies."

6:14  And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

finished it

The worship of Jehovah was thus re-established in Jerusalem, but the theocracy was not restored. The remnant which returned from the Babylonian captivity lived in the land by Gentile sufferance, though doubtless by the providential care of Jehovah, till Messiah came, and was crucified by soldiers of the fourth Gentile world-empire Rome, Daniel 2:40 ; 7:7 . Soon after (A.D. 70) Rome destroyed the city and temple. See "Times of the Gentiles" ; Luke 21:24 ; Revelation 16:19 .

6:15  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.

Adar

twelfth month i.e. March.

6:19  And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

first month

i.e. April.