Ezra 6:15
Context6:15 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
Context6:11 “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


[6:15] 1 sn The sixth year of the reign of Darius would be ca. 516
[6:11] 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.