with three layers of cut[a] stones and one of timber.(A) The cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.(B) The gold and silver articles of God’s house that Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon must also be returned. They are to be brought to the temple in Jerusalem where they belong[b] and put into the house of God.(C)

Darius’s Decree

Therefore, you must stay away from that place, Tattenai governor of the region west of the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and your[c] colleagues, the officials in the region.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:4 Or huge
  2. Ezra 6:5 Lit Jerusalem, to its place,
  3. Ezra 6:6 Lit their

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