Timeline of the Bible · The Captivity & the Return
The Foundation of the Second Temple
Event · 535 BC
What the Bible Says
- “in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem” Ezra 3:8
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 535 BC
- “they appointed Levits to oversee the work of the House of God; and laid the foundation of the Temple”
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.
