Ezra 6:6-12
6:8 a You must pay the full construction costs: This command fulfilled God’s promise through Haggai (Hag 2:7 b).6:10 c pray for the welfare of the king and his sons: In the Cyrus Cylinder (a Persian account of Cyrus’s defeat of Babylon), King Cyrus requests, “May all the gods whom I have resettled in their sacred cities ask [the Babylonian gods] Bel and Nebo daily for a long life for me” (see 1:1-4 d).
Summary for Ezra 6:11-12: 6:11-12 e Those who violate this decree: Inscriptions and official decrees often included curses on those who opposed the will of the king (cp. Dan 2:5 f).
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