^18 (A)Consider from this day onward, ^(B)from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since ^(C)the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, ^(D)consider:

Blessings for a Defiled People

^10 (A)On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, ^(B)in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet,