Discovery BoxEzra 3:7 
ContextPreparations 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 4:3
Context4:3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, “You have no right 5 to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”
Ezra 6:14
Context6:14 The elders of the Jews continued building and prospering, while at the same time 6 Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo continued prophesying. They built and brought it to completion by the command of the God of Israel and by the command of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Ezra 9:9
Context9:9 Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us 7 to restore the temple of our God and to raise 8 up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem. 9
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 tn Heb “not to you and to us.”
6 tn Aram “in” or “by,” in the sense of accompaniment.
7 tn Heb “has granted us reviving.”
8 tn Heb “to cause to stand.”
9 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
