They gave money to the stonecutters and artisans, and gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they could bring cedar wood from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, according to the authorization given them by King Cyrus of Persia.

with three layers of cut stones and one of timber. The cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.

Open your gates, Lebanon,
and fire will consume your cedars.

And build

“The Lord of Hosts says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”

Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time:

Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.

And i will take

The Lord said to him:

I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put My name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there at all times.

And I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My name may be there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there at all times.

The Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His home:

I will be

I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,” says the Lord of Hosts.

I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory.

All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you;
the rams of Nebaioth will serve you
and go up on My altar as an acceptable sacrifice.
I will glorify My beautiful house.

so that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her comforting breast
and drink deeply and delight yourselves
from her glorious breasts.

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

General references

Honor the Lord with your possessions
and with the first produce of your entire harvest;

You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.