Ezra 6:15

6:15 They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth ¹  year of the reign of King Darius.

Ezra 6:11

6:11 “I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled ²  on it, and his house is to be reduced ³  to a rubbish heap ⁴  for this indiscretion. ⁵ 

¹ sn The sixth year of the reign of Darius would be ca. 516 B.C.

² sn The practice referred to in v. 11 has been understood in various ways: hanging (cf. 1 Esd 6:32 and KJV); flogging (cf. NEB, NLT); impalement (BDB 1091 s.v. זְקַף; HALOT 1914 s.v. מחא hitpe; cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The latter seems the most likely.

³ tn Aram “made.”

⁴ tn Aram “a dunghill.”

⁵ tn Aram “for this.”