Ezra/Haggai/Zechariah Timeline
by Wayne D. Turner
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Events in Ezra, Haggai and Zechariah may be correlated as follows:
- Haggais first message (Haggai 1:1-11; Ezra 5:1) - August 520 B.C.
- Resumption of the building of the temple (Haggai 1:12-15; Ezra 5:2) - September 520
The rebuilding seems to have been hindered from 536 to about 530 according to Ezra 4:1-5, and the work ceased altogether from about 530 to 520 according to Ezra 4:24.
- Haggais second message (Haggai 2:1-9) - October 520
- Beginning of Zechariahs preaching (Zechariah 1:1-6) - October/November 520
- Haggais third message (Haggai 2:10-19) - December 520
- Haggais fourth message (Haggai 2:20-23) - December 520
- Tattenais letter to Darius concerning the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 5:3-6:14) - 519-518
There must have been a lapse of time between the resumption of the building and Tattenais appearance.
- Zechariahs eight night visions (Zechariah 1:7-6:8) - February 519
- Joshuas crowning (Zechariah 6:9-15) - 16(?) February 519
- Urging of repentance, promise of blessings (Zechariah 7-8) - December 518
- Dedication of the temple (Ezra 6:15-18) - 12 March 516
- Zechariahs final prophecy (Zechariah 9-14) - after 480