He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stone to one course of cedar beams.
Ezra 6:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 with three courses of hewn stones and one course of timber; let the cost be paid from the royal treasury. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition With three courses of great stones and one course of new timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury. American Standard Version (1901) with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house. Common English Bible with three layers of dressed stones and one layer of timber. The cost will be paid from the royal treasury. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber. And the charges shall be given out of the king's house. |
He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stone to one course of cedar beams.
So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from King Cyrus of Persia.
May it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built of hewn stone, and timber is laid in the walls; this work is being done diligently and prospers in their hands.
Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God: the cost is to be paid to these people, in full and without delay, from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province Beyond the River.
May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts.
Kings shall be your foster fathers and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.
But the earth came to the help of the woman; it opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.