Ezra 6:4

with three rows of large stones and a row of new timber, and let the cost be paid by the king's house.

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With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king’s house:

In Context

3“In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus issued a decree about the house of God in Jerusalem: 'Let the house be rebuilt as a place for sacrifice, let its foundations be laid, let its height be sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits,

5Now bring back the gold and silver objects belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar brought to Babylon from the temple in Jerusalem and send them back to the temple in Jerusalem. You are to put them in the house of God.'

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Cross References

Ezra 3:7So they gave silver to the stoneworkers and craftsmen, and they gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they would bring cedar trees by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized for them by Cyrus, king of Persia.

Ezra 7:20Anything else that is needed for the house of your God that you require, take its cost from my treasury.

Psalms 72:10May the kings of Tarshish and of the islands render tribute; 1 may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts. 1

Isaiah 60:6Camel caravans will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; 1 all of them will come from Sheba; 1 they will bring gold and frankincense, and will sing the praises of Yahweh. 1

Matthew Henry on Ezra 6:2-13

The Favourable Decree of Darius. ( b. c. 519.) 1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. 2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written: 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations… Read the whole commentary →

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