**Chaggai** prophesied in year 3408 [(beginning of Chaggai)] in the 2nd year of Daryavesh. He lived about 200 years [(see above Hoshea son of Be'eri)].

**The building of the Second Temple** began in year 3408 [(Rashi Avodah Zarah 9b. And in Sha'ar HaDorot 21 it says 410, which is a typographical error)], the 2nd year of Daryavesh, which is the 70th year after the destruction [(which was year 3338)]. And in Seder Olam chapter 7 it says the 18th year of Madai is year 70 from the destruction when Ezra went up to Yerushalayim. I do not understand his words, for according to this...

**Great honor** was bestowed by the 3 kingdoms of Persia, Yavan (Greece), and Roma (Rome) on the Second Temple while the sin was not yet rampant, something that was not done for the First Temple [(Ezra 6)]. Levi explains that they prayed to the God of heaven and succeeded for the lives of the king and his sons, and thus the entire portion was. And likewise how great were the firstborn...

**The Men of the Great Assembly** according to Abarbanel were 12: Chaggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Zerubavel, Mordekhai, Bilshan, Ezra, Yeshua son of Yehotzadak, Serayah, Re'elayah, and Mispar Bani [(see Nechemyah 9)]. Rechum Ba'anah, Nechemyah son of Chachalyah, and the Rambam counted with them [(Daniel)] and his companions. And Abarbanel explains in chapter 12 of Daniel why Nechemyah was not counted among them.

**Zechariah** the prophet prophesied in the 2nd year of Daryavesh. And likewise Chaggai and Malachi [(Seder Olam chapter 20)]. And these 3 were among the Men of the Great Assembly. The Radak wrote at the beginning of the book of Malachi that perhaps Malachi was the last of them.

And we find in the Midrash that Malachi is Ezra. [And in the first chapter of Megillah (15b) Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korcha says...]