Ezra 3:7

Preparations for Rebuilding the Temple

3:7 So they provided money 1  for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon 2  and Tyre, 3  so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport 4  at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.

Ezra 10:6

10:6 Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed 5  there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.

1 tn Heb “silver.”

2 map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

3 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

4 tn Heb “to the sea”

5 tc The translation reads וַיָּלֶן (vayyalen, “and he stayed”) rather than the reading וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh, “and he went”) of the MT. Cf. the LXX.