1. Following the king’s announcements, Sisinnes, the commander of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, Sathrabuzanes, and their associates
2. supervised the holy work, carefully assisting the Judean elders and the temple officials.
3. The holy work flourished, while the prophets Haggai and Zechariah prophesied.
4. They finished it by the command of the Lord God of Israel.
5. So with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, the kings of the Persians, the holy house was finished by the twenty-third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of King Darius.