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Some of the clan chiefs, upon entering the Lord’s temple at Jerusalem, made of their own accord an offering for rebuilding God’s house where it stood; (Ezra 2, 68)
they had a request to make of Zorobabel and the chieftains. Let us help you to build it, they said; we too have recourse to the same God whom you worship; witness the sacrifices we have been offering to him ever since the Assyrian king Asar-Haddon settled us here. (Ezra 4, 2)
But Zorobabel and Josue and the clan chiefs told them, To build a house to our God can be no common task of yours and ours. The Lord is our God, and we alone must be the builders of it; such were the orders given to us by Cyrus, king of Persia. (Ezra 4, 3)
Then Cyrus became king of Babylon; and Cyrus, in his first year, gave order that this house of God should be rebuilt. (Ezra 5, 13)
Take these, he said, and lay them up in the temple at Jerusalem.✻ The house of God, he said, must be rebuilt on its old foundations. (Ezra 5, 15)
May it please the king’s grace to have research made in the royal archives, there at Babylon, to find out whether Cyrus did indeed give any orders for God’s house at Jerusalem to be rebuilt; meanwhile, we await the royal pleasure. (Ezra 5, 17)
In the first year of king Cyrus a royal decree was made about the house of God at Jerusalem. It is to be rebuilt, for the better offering of sacrifice; foundations to be laid that will support a structure sixty cubits … high and sixty wide; (Ezra 6, 3)
the Jewish ruler and the Jewish elders must be allowed to go on with their temple-building, so that this house of God may be re-established on its ancient site. (Ezra 6, 7)
My will is, further, that if any man presume to alter the tenour of this decree, a beam should be taken from his house, and himself nailed up on it; the said house to be confiscated.✻ (Ezra 6, 11)
It was on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of king Darius, that they finished God’s house; (Ezra 6, 15)
great joy had priest and Levite, great joy had all the returned exiles, as they consecrated God’s house together. (Ezra 6, 16)
And all through the week following they kept the feast of unleavened bread, glad at heart. Glad indeed the Lord had made them, Assyria’s king✻ no more their enemy, their task so lightened for them in building a house for the Lord God of Israel. (Ezra 6, 22)
