Ezra 6:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Ezra 4:16

We make known to the king that, if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River.”

Ezra 4:23

Then when the copy of King Artaxerxes’s letter was read before Rehum and the scribe Shimshai and their associates, they hurried to the Jews in Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.

Ezra 5:5

But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report reached Darius and then answer was returned by letter in reply to it.

Ezra 6:14

So the elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of the prophet Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished their building by command of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia,

Ezra 6:4

with three courses of hewn stones and one course of timber; let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.

Ezra 6:7

let the work on this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.

Ezra 6:9

Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests in Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,

Ezra 7:14

For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God, which is in your hand,

Nehemiah 11:23

For there was a command from the king concerning them and a settled provision for the singers, as was required every day.

Nehemiah 2:8

and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, directing him to give me timber to make beams for the gates of the temple fortress and for the wall of the city and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the gracious hand of my God was upon me.

Daniel 6:26

I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people shall tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: For he is the living God, enduring forever. His kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion has no end.

Haggai 2:8

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts.