Timeline of the Bible · The Captivity & the Return
The Second Temple Finished
Event · 515 BC
What the Bible Says
- “in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king” Ezra 6:15
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 515 BC
- “In the 6 year of Darius, toward the later end thereof, on the 3 day of the 12 moneth, called Adar, was the structure of the Temple finished”
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
