Ezra 6:4
King James Version
“three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king’s house:”
Context
1Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
2And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein a record thus written:
3In the first year of Cyrus the king Cyrus the king made a decree the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
4three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king’s house:
5And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, to his place, and place in the house of God.
6Now Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which beyond the river, be ye far from thence:
7Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.