Ezra 6:14-16

International Children’s Bible

¹⁴ So the Jewish elders continued to build. And they were successful because of the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building the Temple as the God of Israel had said. It was also done to obey the kings Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes of Persia. ¹⁵ The Temple was finished on the third day of the month Adar. It was the sixth year that Darius was king.

¹⁶ Then the people of Israel celebrated. They gave the Temple to God to honor him. Everybody was happy: the priests, the Levites and the rest of the Jews who had returned from captivity.