Now this _Darius_ was not _Darius Nothus_, but _Darius Hystaspis_, as I gather by considering that the second year of this _Darius_ was the seventieth of the indignation against _Jerusalem_, and the cities of _Judah_, which indignation commenced with the invasion of _Jerusalem_, and the cities of _Judah_ by _Nebuchadnezzar_, in the ninth year of _Zedekiah_, _Zech._ i. 12. _Jer._ xxxiv. 1, 7, 22. & xxxix. 1. and that the fourth year of this _Darius_, was the seventieth from the burning of the Temple in the eleventh year of _Zedekiah_, _Zech._ vii. 5. & _Jer._ lii. 12. both which are exactly true of _Darius Hystaspis_: and that in the second year of this _Darius_ there were men living who had seen the first Temple, _Hagg._ ii. 3. whereas the second year of _Darius Nothus_ was 166 years after the desolation of the Temple and City. And further, if the finishing of the Temple be deferred to the sixth year of _Darius Nothus_, _Jeshua_ and _Zerubbabel_ must have been the one High-Priest, the other Captain of the people an hundred and eighteen years together, besides their ages before; which is surely too long: for in the first year of _Cyrus_ the chief Priests were _Serajah_, _Jeremiah_, _Ezra_, _Amariah_, _Malluch_, _Shechaniah_, _Rehum_, _Meremoth_, _Iddo_, _Ginnetho_, _Abijah_, _Miamin_, _Maadiah_, _Bilgah_, _Shemajah_, _Joiarib_, _Jedaiah_, _Sallu_, _Amok_, _Hilkiah_, _Jedaiah_: these were Priests in the days of _Jeshua_, and the eldest sons of them all, _Merajah_ the son of _Serajah_, _Hananiah_ the son of _Jeremiah_, _Meshullam_ the son of _Ezra_, &c. were chief Priests in the days of _Joiakim_ the son of _Jeshua_: _Nehem._ xii. and therefore the High Priest-hood of _Jeshua_ was but of an ordinary length.