Ok I see why you are making mistakes. You are starting with Greek and Roman dates and trying to stuff the Bible into it. As if the Greek olympiad dates overrule the Bible. You have to start with the Bible first.
You said:
"
453 BC which is the
1st Year of Cyrus the Great "
Say what? So you think the 70 years of exile started in 523 BC?
You said:
" According to Scripture their order is as follows:
1) Cyrus
2) Darius I
3) Artaxerxes
4) Darius II
"
In my Bible, Daniel said Darius the Median was the first to rule. Not Cyrus. Where are you getting your information from? Read the Bible. And you forgot Ahasuerus.
Daniel 5:30-31 " In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
And Darius the Median took the kingdom,
being about threescore and two years old."
Then you said " If you read the book of Ezra carefully..."
Do I have to quote the whole first 3 chapters of Ezra because you refuse to admit you might possibly be wrong?
1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
2“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
3Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem.
4And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”
5Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem.
6And all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered.
7Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.
8Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.
9And this was the number of them: 30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers,
1030 bowls of gold, 410 bowls of silver, and 1,000 other vessels;
11all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.
1Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.
2They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua,
Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah,
Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.
(I don't see any reason to assume these guys waited 119 years to go to Jerusalem. Looks like they just went when Cyrus issued the decree. And if they did wait 119 years, they would all be over 189 years old. Seeing as how the last guy to live that long was probably Job, it seems very unlikely they were all over 189 years old.)
68Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site.
(Not 119 years later)
Rebuilding the Altar
1When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.
2Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
3They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening.
4And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,
5and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the LORD.
6From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
7So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
Rebuilding the Temple
8Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the LORD.
9And Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together supervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers.
10And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
11And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD,
“For he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.”
And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD,
because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 12But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy,
13so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.
All right. Is it glaringly obvious the Temple construction began in the 2nd year of Cyrus. Not 119 years after Cyrus. Not 189 years after they were exiled.
Just admit you are wrong.
Yes this discussion is about the 2nd Temple. Especially when it was built. Which is entirely on topic because I already mentioned Ezekiel's Temple is the plans Yahweh gave them for the second Temple. You know, the one they began to build in the 2nd year of Cyrus?
