Ezra 5:5

5:5 But God was watching over ¹  the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped ²  until a report could be dispatched ³  to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.

Ezra 6:1

Darius Issues a Decree

6:1 So Darius the king issued orders, and they searched in the archives ⁴  of the treasury which were deposited there in Babylon.

Haggai 1:15

1:15 This took place on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of King Darius’ second year. ⁵ 

¹ 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.

² tn Aram “they did not stop them.”

³ tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.

⁴ tn Aram “the house of the archives.”

⁵ sn The twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of King Darius’ second year was September 21, 520 b.c., twenty-three days after the original command by Haggai to rebuild (1:1). The text does not state the reason for the delay, but it may have resulted from the pressing need to bring in the late summer harvest.