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Ezra 6:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree  concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its original foundations be retained.  Its height is to be twenty-seven metres  and its width twenty-seven metres,

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In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia,  in order to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken through  Jeremiah,  the Lord roused the spirit of King Cyrus  of Persia to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and also to put it in writing:


The city is laid out in a square; its length and width are the same. He measured the city with the rod at 12,000 stadia.  Its length, width, and height are equal.


But who is able to build a temple for him, since even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain him?  Who am I then that I should build a temple for him except as a place to burn incense before him?


In  the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah,  the Lord roused the spirit  of King Cyrus to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and to put it in writing:


They gave money to the stonecutters and craftsmen, and gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they would bring cedar wood from Lebanon to Joppa by sea,  according to the authorisation given them by King Cyrus of Persia.


Then Solomon sent word to King Hiram  , of Tyre: Do for me what you did for my father David. You sent him cedars to build him a house to live in.


This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah.


So the Jewish elders continued successfully with the building under the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo.  They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus,  Darius, and King Artaxerxes  of Persia.





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