The promise, "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it," was literally fulfilled. Verse 9. "The elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai 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. And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar [the twelfth month], which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king." Ezra 6:14, 15.

Løftet: "Zerubbabels hænder har lagt grunden til dette hus, hans hænder skal også fuldende det," gik bogstaveligt i opfyldelse. 9. vers. "Jødernes ældste byggede, og det lykkedes dem i henhold til profeterne Haggajs og Zakarias, Iddos søns, profeti; de byggede og fuldførte værket efter Israels Guds bud og efter Kyros og Darius og perserkongen Artaxerxes befaling. De fuldendte templet på den tredje dag i adar måned i kong Darius sjette regeringsår." Ezra 6,14-15.