Ezra 6:3-4
3 In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree(A) concerning the house of God in Jerusalem:
Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its original foundations be retained.(a) Its height is to be 90 feet(b) and its width 90 feet,(c)(d)(B) 4 with three layers of cut(e) stones and one of timber.(C) The cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.(D)
Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its original foundations be retained.(a) Its height is to be 90 feet(b) and its width 90 feet,(c)(d)(B) 4 with three layers of cut(e) stones and one of timber.(C) The cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.(D)
Footnotes:
a.
Ezra 6:3: Lit be brought forth
b.
Ezra 6:3: Lit 60 cubits
c.
Ezra 6:3: Lit 60 cubits
d.
Ezra 6:3: A copyist seemingly overlooked the term for length and inadvertently read the 60 cubits for height and width. Like Solomon’s temple, this temple was probably 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
e.
Ezra 6:4: Or huge
Cross references:
B.
Ezra 6:3:
1 Kings 6:2