Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezra 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.
15. The date here given is the 3rd of Adar (the 12th month) in the 6th year of Darius (516 515). The month Adar is about equivalent to our March. The name seems to be derived from an Assyrian god ‘Adar’, which appears in such names as Adrammelech. Haggai (Hag 1:15) mentions that the work had been recommenced on the 24th day of the 6th month (Elul = September) in the 2nd year of Darius. It had therefore been going on for nearly 4 years. But the foundations had been laid twenty years previously, b.c. 536 (see Ezr 3:8).
Another date, the 23rd of Adar, is given in 1Es 7:5. To account for this variation, it has been suggested that the last 8 days of the year would to a scribe seem best suited for the celebration of such a festival as that of the dedication (compare the 8 days in 2Ch 29:17). In order that the regular services of the Temple might seem to have been resumed with the new year, he represented this festival as commencing on the 23rd of the 12th month. This is almost too ingenious. Either the figure ‘twenty’ has accidentally been omitted in the text of our verse, or, as seems equally probable (since the LXX. supports the Hebrew text here), the composer of 1 Esdras has mistaken some letter for the symbol or contraction which represented the number.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Adar was the twelfth or last month of the Jewish year, corresponding nearly with our March. The sixth year of Darius was 516-515 B.C.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 15. This house was finished] The sixth year of Darius mentioned here was about A.M. 3489, twenty years after the foundation had been laid by Zerubbabel, under the reign of Cyrus.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar,…. The twelfth month of the year with the Jews, and answers to part of our February and part of March:
which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king; four years after the decree came forth.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(15) The third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year.The event around which this part of the history revolves is dated with due care; it was on the third day of the last month of the ecclesiastical year, B.C. 516-515. Haggai (Hag. 1:15) gives the exact date of the re-commencement: the time therefore was four years five months and ten days. But, dating from the first foundation (Ezr. 3:10), no less than twenty-one years had elapsed.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
15. Month Adar The twelfth, or last month of the Jewish year.
Sixth year of Darius Having been resumed in the second year of his reign, (Ezr 4:24,) the rebuilding, after that time, took four years.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
I think there must have been a space of nearly 20 years from the foundation of the temple to the finishing of it. And in the building up of every individual of Christ’s mystical temple, how long sometimes, how frequently interrupted, and in some instances, how apparently given over, as it was here, doth the work seem to many precious souls, in their own ease and in that of others! Oh! precious, precious Jesus! well is it for thy people that both the work and the glory is thine. The spark of grace thou preservest from being extinguished. The incorruptible seed thou keepest from rotting.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Ezr 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.
Ver. 15. And this house was finished ] About fifteen years after that the foundation had been laid, or twenty at most. The Jews therefore either were out in their account, Joh 2:20 , Forty and six years was this temple in building; or else they meant it of Herod’s temple, which was long in building and beautifying, whereby he sought to ingratiate with the Jews, which yet he could never do.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Adar = the twelfth month. See App-51.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Adar
twelfth month i.e. March.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
am 3489, bc 515
Adar: Est 3:7, Est 3:13, Est 8:12, Est 9:1, Est 9:15, Est 9:17, Est 9:19, Est 9:21
Reciprocal: 1Ki 6:38 – finished 1Ki 7:51 – was ended Ezr 5:16 – it is not finished Ezr 9:9 – to set up Neh 6:15 – wall Ecc 9:10 – thy hand Zec 1:1 – the eighth Zec 1:16 – my house Zec 4:7 – shoutings Zec 4:9 – his hands Zec 7:1 – the fourth
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ezr 6:15. This house was finished in the third day of the month Adar The tenth of March, in the year of the world 3489, in little more than four years after the Jews had returned to the work, and engaged heartily in it, in consequence of the reproofs and exhortations of Haggai and Zechariah; in something more than two years after the forementioned decree of Darius had been given forth; in about twenty years after the return from captivity; and five hundred and fifteen before the coming of the Messiah.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
6:15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month {g} Adar, which was in {h} the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
(g) This is the twelfth month and contains part of February and part of March.
(h) The 42nd year after their first return.