Home · When · Return and Restoration · Haggai and Zechariah stir the people to build Prophecy · Return and Restoration c. 520 BC
Haggai and Zechariah stir the people to build Range across sources: 521–520 BC
True span 4004 BC – AD 100
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How we know the date Haggai dates his own messages to the second year of Darius (Haggai 1:1). ISBE's article “Haggai” (1915) gives 520 BC; ISBE's Old Testament chronology (1915) gives 521 BC. The sources differ by 1 year; the year shown (520 BC) is the one this timeline follows through this stretch, from ISBE (1915).
Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation
The sources, word for word “If so, he must have prophesied when a comparatively old man, for we know the exact date of his prophecies, 520 BC.”
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · HAGGAI · gives 520 BC “Darius the Great began his reign in 521.”
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT · gives 521 BC Sources