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Let it be known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which they are building with rough stones, and with timber set into the walls. And this work is being built up diligently, and it increases by their hands. (Ezra 5, 8)
Then they responded a word to us in this manner, saying: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth. And we are building the temple that was constructed these many years before, and which a great king of Israel had built and constructed. (Ezra 5, 11)
But afterward, our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, so he delivered them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, the Chaldean. And he destroyed this house, and he transferred its people to Babylon. (Ezra 5, 12)
Then, in the first year of Cyrus, the king of Babylon, king Cyrus issued a decree, so that this house of God would be built. (Ezra 5, 13)
And now the vessels of gold and silver from the temple of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple that was in Jerusalem, and which he had carried away to the temple of Babylon, king Cyrus brought out of the temple of Babylon, and they were given to one called Sheshbazzar, whom he also appointed as governor. (Ezra 5, 14)
Now then, if it seems good to the king, let him search in the king’s library, which is in Babylon, to see whether it was ordered by king Cyrus, that the house of God in Jerusalem should be built. And may the will of the king be sent to us about this matter.” (Ezra 5, 17)
Then king Darius instructed, and they searched in the library of books that were deposited in Babylon. (Ezra 6, 1)
“In the first year of king Cyrus, Cyrus the king decreed that the house of God, which is in Jerusalem, shall be built in the place where they immolate victims, and that they should set the foundations so as to support a height of sixty cubits and a width of sixty cubits, (Ezra 6, 3)
with three rows of rough stones, and so as to have rows of new timber, and that the expenses shall be given from the house of the king. (Ezra 6, 4)
Moreover, it has been instructed by me as to what ought to be done by those priests of the Jews, so that the house of God may be built, specifically, that from the king’s treasury, that is, from the tribute which is taken from the region beyond the river, the expenses shall be scrupulously given to those men, so that the work may not be impeded. (Ezra 6, 8)
And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and let them pray for the life of the king and for the lives of his sons. (Ezra 6, 10)
Therefore, Tattenai, the governor of the region beyond the river, and Shetharbozenai, and his counselors, in accord with what king Darius had instructed, diligently executed the same. (Ezra 6, 13)
