Discovery BoxEzra 6:8-9 
Context6:8 “I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work. 1 6:9 Whatever is needed – whether oxen or rams or lambs or burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by 2 the priests who are in Jerusalem – must be given to them daily without any neglect,
Ezra 6:12
Context6:12 May God who makes his name to reside there overthrow any king or nation 3 who reaches out 4 to cause such change so as to destroy this temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given orders. Let them be carried out with precision!”
Ezra 6:22
Context6:22 They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the Lord had given them joy and had changed the opinion 5 of the king of Assyria 6 toward them, so that he assisted 7 them in the work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.
Ezra 7:6
Context7:6 This Ezra is the one who came up from Babylon. He was a scribe who was skilled in the law of Moses which the Lord God of Israel had given. The king supplied him with everything he requested, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
1 tn The words “of the work” are not in the Aramaic, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Aram “according to the word of.”
3 tn Aram “people.”
4 tn Aram “who sends forth his hand.”
5 tn Heb “heart.”
6 sn The expression “king of Assyria” is anachronistic, since Assyria fell in 612
7 tn Heb “to strengthen their hands.”
