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Ezra 6:4

with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house:

World English Bible

with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

American Standard Version

with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

Geneva Bible 1599

Three orders of great stones, and one order of timber, and let the expenses be giuen of the Kings house.

Darby Translation

[with] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber; and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:

Young's Literal Translation

three rows of rolled stones, and a row of new wood, and the outlay let be given out of the king's house.

Bible in Basic English

With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

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Cross references

“three rows”

1 Kings 6:36

1 Kings 6:36 · BSB

Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

“the expenses”

Psalm 68:29 Ezra 7:20–23 Psalm 72:10 Isaiah 49:23 Isaiah 60:6–10 Revelation 12:16

Psalm 68:29 · BSB

Because of Your temple at Jerusalem kings will bring You gifts.

Ezra 7:20–23 · BSB

And if anything else is needed for the house of your God that you may have occasion to supply, you may pay for it from the royal treasury.

Psalm 72:10 · BSB

May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.

Isaiah 49:23 · BSB

Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to sha…

Isaiah 60:6–10 · BSB

Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.

Revelation 12:16 · BSB

But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3In 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 foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

5Furthermore, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, must also be returned to the temple in Jerusalem and deposited in the house of God.

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