Ezra 6:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.”
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“with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house:”
King James Version · Public Domain“with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“three rows of rolled stones, and a row of new wood, and the outlay let be given out of the king's house.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezra 6:4 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 6:36Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
- Ezra 3:7They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
- Ezra 5:8Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. The people are rebuilding it with large stones, and placing timbers in the walls. This work is being carried out diligently and is prospering in their hands.
- Ezra 7:20And 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.
- Psalms 68:29Because of Your temple at Jerusalem kings will bring You gifts.
- Psalms 72:10May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
- Isaiah 49:23Kings 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 shame.”
- Isaiah 60:6Caravans 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 12:16But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that had poured from the dragon’s mouth.
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