24 It was then that the work on the house of God, which was in Jerusalem, stopped; and it continued stopped until the second year of the reign of Da·riʹus+ the king of Persia.

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:

10 In the twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth [month], in the second year of Da·riʹus, the word of Jehovah occurred to Hagʹgai+ the prophet, saying: