Haggai 1:15 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

This was on the 24th day of the sixth month, during the second year that King Darius was ruling.

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Sometimes God marks the exact moment when everything changes.

📚 Historical Context

Haggai 1:15 marks a precise date in the biblical record, referring to the 24th day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius I of Persia, around 520 BC, during the time when the Jewish exiles had returned to Jerusalem. This period followed the Babylonian captivity, and the prophet Haggai was urging the people to rebuild the Temple, which had been destroyed decades earlier, as a step toward spiritual and national renewal. The mention of this date highlights the historical accuracy of prophetic messages and their connection to real events in Persian rule.

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Then the work on God's temple in Jerusalem stopped. It remained stopped until the second year that Darius was king of Persia.

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In the eighth month of King Darius's second year, God spoke to Zechariah (son of Berechiah, grandson of Iddo the prophet).

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