Ezra 6:4 - Easy To Read Version4 \{The wall around it\} must have three rows of large stones and one row of big wood timbers. The cost of building the temple must be paid for from the king’s treasury. Féach an chaibidilTuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 17694 with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house: Féach an chaibidilAmplified Bible - Classic Edition4 With three courses of great stones and one course of new timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury. Féach an chaibidilAmerican Standard Version (1901)4 with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house. Féach an chaibidilCommon English Bible4 with three layers of dressed stones and one layer of timber. The cost will be paid from the royal treasury. Féach an chaibidilCatholic Public Domain Version4 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. Féach an chaibidilDouay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version4 Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber. And the charges shall be given out of the king's house. Féach an chaibidil |
Then those people who had come back from captivity gave money to the stonecutters and carpenters. And those people gave food, wine, and olive oil. They used these things to pay the people of Tyre and Sidon to bring cedar logs from Lebanon. Those people wanted to bring the logs in ships to the sea coast town of Joppa like \{Solomon did when he built\} the first temple. Cyrus king of Persia gave permission for them to do these things.
King Darius, you should know that we went to the province of Judah. We went to the temple of the great God. The people in Judah are building that temple with large stones. They are putting big wooden timbers in the walls. The work is being done with much care and the people of Judah are working very hard. They are building very fast; it will soon be done.
Now I give this order. You must do these things for the Jewish leaders building God’s temple: The cost of the building must be fully paid from the king’s treasury. That money will come from the taxes collected from the provinces in the area west of the Euphrates River. Do these things quickly, so the work will not stop.
Kings will be teachers to your children.\par Kings’ daughters will care for them.\par Those kings and their daughters\par will bow down to you.\par They will kiss the dirt at your feet.\par Then you will know\par that I am the Lord.\par Then you will know\par that any person who trusts in me\par will not be disappointed.”\par