Ezra 4:21

4:21 Now give orders that these men cease their work and that this city not be rebuilt until such time as I so instruct. ¹ 

Ezra 4:24

4:24 So the work on the temple of God in Jerusalem came to a halt. It remained halted until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia. ² 

Ezra 5:5

5:5 But God was watching over ³  the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped ⁴  until a report could be dispatched ⁵  to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.

Ezra 5:16

5:16 Then this Sheshbazzar went and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem. From that time to the present moment ⁶  it has been in the process of being rebuilt, although it is not yet finished.’

Ezra 6:15

6:15 They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth ⁷  year of the reign of King Darius.

¹ tn Aram “until a command is issued from me.”

² sn Darius I Hystaspes ruled Persia ca. 522–486 b.c.

³ tn Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern.

⁴ tn Aram “they did not stop them.”

⁵ tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.

⁴ tn Aram “from then and until now.”

⁵ sn The sixth year of the reign of Darius would be ca. 516 B.C.