²³ “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:

²⁴ Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius^(A) king of Persia.

¹⁵ The temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.^(A)

¹⁵ So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.