Ezra 5:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.”
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“In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“but in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezra 5:13 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezra 1:1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
- Ezra 1:3Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 6:3In 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,
- Isaiah 44:28who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’ who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Let its foundation be laid.’”
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