Ezra 6:4
Good News Translation
The walls are to be built with one layer of wood on top of each three layers of stone. All expenses are to be paid by the royal treasury.

New Revised Standard Version
with three courses of hewn stones and one course of timber; let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.

Contemporary English Version
with one row of wooden beams for each three rows of large stones. The royal treasury will pay for everything.

New American Bible
It shall have three courses of cut stone for each one of timber. The costs are to be borne by the royal house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and the charges shall be given out of the king's house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and the charges shall be given out of the king's house.

three rows

1 Kings 6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

the expenses

Ezra 7:20-23 And whatsoever more there shall be need of for the house of thy God, how much soever thou shalt have occasion to spend, it shall be given out of the treasury, and the king's exchequer, and by me. . . .

Psalm 68:29 From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to thee.

Psalm 72:10 The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts:

Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.

Isaiah 60:6-10 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Madian and Epha: all they from Saba shall come, bringing gold and frankincense: and shewing forth praise to the Lord. . . .

Revelation 12:16 And the earth helped the woman: and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

Context
The Decree of Darius
3In the first year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus the king decreed, that the house of God should be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the place where they may offer sacrifices, and that they lay the foundations that may support the height of threescore cubits, and the breadth of threescore cubits, 4Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and the charges shall be given out of the king's house.5And also let the golden and silver vessels of the temple of God, which Nabuchodonosor took out of the temple of Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and carried back to the temple of Jerusalem to their place, which also were placed in the temple of God.…
Cross References
1 Kings 6:36
And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

Ezra 6:8
I also have commanded what must be done by those ancients of the Jews, that the house of God may be built, to wit, that of the king's chest, that is, of the tribute that is paid out of the country beyond the river, the charges be diligently given to those men, lest the work be hindered.

Ezra 7:20
And whatsoever more there shall be need of for the house of thy God, how much soever thou shalt have occasion to spend, it shall be given out of the treasury, and the king's exchequer, and by me.

Ezra 6:3
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