(12:1) ¹  Jehoash ²  was seven years old when he began to reign.

In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.

They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth ¹  year of the reign of King Darius.

Now after these things had happened, during the reign of King Artaxerxes ¹  of Persia, Ezra came up from Babylon. ²  Ezra was the son of Seraiah, who was the son of Azariah, who was the son of Hilkiah,

These are the leaders ¹  and those enrolled with them by genealogy who were coming up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

Then Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus at his royal residence in the tenth ¹  month (that is, the month of Tebeth) in the seventh ²  year of his reign.

Early in the reign ¹  of King Zedekiah of Judah, the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about Elam. ² 

In the third ¹  year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar ²  of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem ³  and laid it under siege. ⁴ 

In the second year of his ¹  reign Nebuchadnezzar had many dreams. ²  His mind ³  was disturbed and he suffered from insomnia. ⁴ 

David was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned for forty years.

Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.

In the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah, Jotham’s son Ahaz became king over Judah.

The Lord rules forever, your God, O Zion, throughout the generations to come! ¹  Praise the Lord!

In the fifth year of the reign of Israel’s King Joram, son of Ahab, Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram became king over Judah. ¹ 

¹ In the third year ²  of King Belshazzar’s reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me previously. ³ 

Saul was [thirty] ¹  years old when he began to reign; he ruled over Israel for [forty] ²  years.

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.

so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people. ¹ 

But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.

They were hiring advisers to oppose them, so as to frustrate their plans, throughout the time ¹  of King Cyrus of Persia until the reign of King Darius ²  of Persia. ³