Ezra 6:4

layers of large stones, three, and one layer of new timber,—and, as for the expenses, out of the house of the king, let them be given.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

3In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king, issued an edict, as to the house of God in Jerusalem, Let the house be built, the place where they used to offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be reared,—the height thereof, sixty cubits, the breadth thereof, sixty cubits;

5Moreover also, the utensils of the house of God, of gold and silver, which, Nebuchadnezzar, took forth out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, let them again be taken to the temple which is in Jerusalem every one to its place, and lay them up in the house of God.

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Cross References

Ezra 3:7And they gave silver, unto the masons and carpenters,—and food and drink and oil, unto them of Zidon and unto them of Tyre, to bring in cedar-trees out of the Lebanon, unto the sea of Joppa, according to the grant of Cyrus king of Persia unto them.

Ezra 7:20And, the rest of the need of the house of thy God, which it shall fall to thee to give, thou shalt give, out of the treasure-house of the king.

Psalms 72:10The kings of Tarshish and of the Coastlands, A gift, let them render, The kings of Sheba and Seba, A present, let them bring;

Isaiah 60:6The multitude of camels, shall cover thee The young camels of Midian and Ephah, All they of Sheba, shall come,—Gold and frankincense, shall they bring, And, the praises of Yahweh, shall they joyfully tell:

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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