2 It was then that Ze·rubʹba·bel+ the son of She·alʹti·el*+ and Jeshʹu·a+ the son of Je·hozʹa·dak got up and started to rebuild the house of God, which was in Jerusalem; and with them there were God’s prophets+ giving them aid.

15 And they completed this house by the third day of the lunar month Aʹdar,+ that is, in the sixth year of the reign of Da·riʹus the king.

16 “Therefore this is what Jehovah has said, ‘“I shall certainly return to Jerusalem with mercies.+ My own house will be built in her,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah of armies, “and a measuring line itself will be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’+