MANUS. 9 DARIUS. Being reminded of his vow, issues a decree, in In the first year of his the first year of his reign, Jeshua the highreign, to build the city 53 priest returned to Jeand temple of Jerusarusalem, and at the in'lem. Zerubabel, in the stigation of Haggai and beginning of the second year, reZechariah put forth his turns to Jerusalem with Jeshua. hand to build the tem--1st Esdras v. 54 ple. 55 56 Therefore Jeshua, in the first instance, filled the office of high priest In the sixth month of the second year, being nine years from the cessation, the building of the temple is recommenced.-Haggai i. 14, 15. |