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Haggai 1:15

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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.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Sometimes God marks the exact moment when everything changes.

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