Ezra 5:17

5:17 “Now if the king is so inclined, 1  let a search be conducted in the royal archives 2  there in Babylon in order to determine whether King Cyrus did in fact issue orders for this temple of God to be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us a decision concerning this matter.”

Ezra 10:9

10:9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. (It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.

Ezra 10:14

10:14 Let our leaders take steps 3  on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”

1 tn Aram “if upon the king it is good.”

2 tn Aram “the house of the treasures of the king.”

3 tn Heb “stand.”