Ezr 6:8-9, 7:20-22, Neh 9:38 | ESV | STEP | Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God . The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue , the tribute of the province from Beyond the River .

f 2 Kgs. 23:3; 2 Chr. 29:10; 34:31; Ezra 10:3; [ch. 10:29]; ch. 10:1

Ezra 6:8-9

8 Moreover, ^aI make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River. 9 And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,

Ezra 7:20-22

20 And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which it falls to you to provide, you may provide it out of the king’s treasury.

21 “And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence, 22 up to 100 talents ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms} of silver, 100 cors ^{▼▼A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters} of wheat, 100 baths ^{▼▼A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters} of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

Nehemiah 9:38

38 ^{▼▼Ch 10:1 in Hebrew} “Because of all this ^fwe make a firm covenant in writing; on ^gthe sealed document are the names of ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks the names of} our princes, our Levites, and our priests.