Ezra 6:4
With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house:
Ezra 6:4 in other translations
| BSB | with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury. |
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| WEB | with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house. |
| ASV | with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house. |
| YLT | three rows of rolled stones, and a row of new wood, and the outlay let be given out of the king's house. |
| DARBY | with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber; and let the expenses be given out of the king's house: |
| BBE | With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house; |
| Webster | With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house: |
What does Ezra 6:4 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezra 6:1-12
When God's time is come for fulfilling his gracious purposes concerning his church, he will raise up instruments to do it, from whom such good service was not expected. While our thoughts are directed to this event, we are led by Zechariah to fix our regard on a nobler, a spiritual building. The Lord Jesus Christ continues to lay one stone upon another: let us assist the great design. Difficulties delay the progress…
Ezra 6:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezra 6:4
- 1 Kings 6:36
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
- Psalms 68:29
Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
- Psalms 72:10
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
- Ezra 7:20-23
And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure house. And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily, Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
- Isaiah 60:6-10
The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord. All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. …
- Isaiah 49:23
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
- Revelation 12:16
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
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Context
- Ezra 6:3
In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning 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, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
- Ezra 6:4
With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house:
- Ezra 6:5
And 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, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
Ezra 6:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Los órdenes, tres de piedra de mármol, y un orden de madera nueva: y que el gasto sea dado de la casa del rey. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | avec trois rangées de grandes pierres, et une rangée de bois neuf; et que les dépenses soient payées par la maison du roi; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | drei Lagen von Quadersteinen und eine Lage von neuen Balken. Und die Kosten sollen aus dem Hause des Königs bestritten werden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ordines de lapidibus impolitis tres, et sic ordines de lignis novis: sumptus autem de domo regis dabuntur. |