1In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet,
The twenty-first day of the seventh month in the second year of King Darius was October 17, 520 BC, nearly a month after God’s people were stirred up by the Lord for work on the temple.
1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet,