Ezra 6:4

New English Translation

with three layers of large stones and one layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized by the royal treasury.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:36

He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.

Ezra 3:7

So they provided money for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.

Ezra 5:8

Let it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the temple of the great God. It is being built with large stones, and timbers are being placed in the walls. This work is being done with all diligence and is prospering in their hands.

Ezra 6:8

“I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work.

Psalm 68:29

as you come out of your temple in Jerusalem! Kings bring tribute to you.

Psalm 72:10

The kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will offer gifts; the kings of Sheba and Seba will bring tribute.

Isaiah 49:23

Kings will be your children’s guardians; their princesses will nurse your children. With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you and they will lick the dirt on your feet. Then you will recognize that I am the Lord; those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

Revelation 12:16

but the earth came to her rescue; the ground opened up and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.