Ezra 6:8

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Starting at once, I am ordering you to help the leaders by paying their expenses from the tax money collected in Western Province.

Cross References

Ezra 4:16

If Jerusalem is rebuilt and its walls completed, you will no longer have control over Western Province.

Ezra 4:23

As soon as this letter was read, Governor Rehum, Secretary Shimshai, and their advisers went to Jerusalem and forced everyone to stop rebuilding the city.

Ezra 5:5

But God was looking after the Jewish leaders. So the governor and his group decided not to make the people stop working on the temple until they could report to Darius and get his advice.

Ezra 6:14

With great success the Jewish leaders continued working on the temple, while Haggai and Zechariah encouraged them by their preaching. And so, the temple was completed at the command of the God of Israel and by the orders of kings Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes of Persia.

Ezra 6:4

with one row of wooden beams for each three rows of large stones. The royal treasury will pay for everything.

Ezra 6:7

Let the Jewish governor and leaders rebuild it where it stood before. And stop slowing them down!

Ezra 6:9

And don't fail to let the priests in Jerusalem have whatever they need each day so they can offer sacrifices to the God of heaven. Give them young bulls, rams, sheep, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and olive oil.

Nehemiah 11:23

though the daily choice of music and musicians was decided by royal decree of the Persian king.

Nehemiah 2:8

I will need timber to rebuild the gates of the fortress near the temple and more timber to construct the city wall and to build a place for me to live. And so, I would appreciate a letter to Asaph, who is in charge of the royal forest.” God was good to me, and the king did everything I asked.

Daniel 6:26

I command everyone in my kingdom to worship and honour the God of Daniel. He is the living God, the one who lives for ever. His power and his kingdom will never end.

Haggai 2:8

All silver and gold belong to me,