1 In the second year of Da·riʹus the king,+ in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah occurred by means of Hagʹgai+ the prophet to Ze·rubʹba·bel+ the son of She·alʹti·el,+ the governor of Judah,+ and to Joshua*+ the son of Je·hozʹa·dak+ the high* priest, saying: