³ At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and their colleagues^(A) came to the Jews and asked, “Who gave you the order to rebuild this temple and finish this structure?” ^[a](B)

¹⁴ He also took from the temple in Babylon the gold and silver articles of God’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and carried them to the temple in Babylon.^(A) He released them from the temple in Babylon to a man named Sheshbazzar, the governor by the appointment of King Cyrus.^(B)

Command to Rebuild the Temple

1 In the second year of King Darius,^[a](A) on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet^(B) Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,^(C) the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:^(D)