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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.
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Verse 15. Adar, corresponding with our Feb. and March. Menochius.—In the latter month they celebrated the Passover, verse 19.—Darius. Hence twenty years had elapsed from the first foundation. They might continue to embellish the temple other twenty-seven years, as the Jews assert; (John 2:20,) unless they speak of the repairs made by Herod, (Baronius. Tirinus.) or exaggerate, (Grot.) being under a mistake. Salien, A. 3537.
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