9  Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the ^aprophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

  14  And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of ^aHaggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

  1  In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto ^aZechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,