Ezr 6:10-12, Zec 12:3 | ESV | STEP | that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons .

f[See ver. 2 above]

Ezra 6:10-12

10 that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven ^aand pray for the life of the king and his sons. 11 Also I make a decree that if anyone alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled on it, and ^bhis house shall be made a dunghill. 12 May the God ^cwho has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”

Zechariah 12:3

3 ^dOn that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. ^eAll who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And ^fall the nations of the earth will gather against it.