2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 177
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them again thither.
45 You also have vowed to
build up the Temple, which
the Edomites burnt when
Yahudea was made desolate
by the Chaldees.
46 And now, O lord the king,
this is that which I require,
and which I desire of you, and
this is the princely liberality
proceeding from yourself: I
desire therefore that you make
good the vow, the performance
whereof with your own mouth
you have vowed to the king of
heaven.
47 Then Darius the king
stood up and kissed him, and
wrote letters for him unto all
the treasurers and lieutenants,
and captains and governors
that they should safely convey
on their way, both him, and all
those that go up with him to
build Yerusalem.
48 He wrote letters also unto
the lieutenants that were in
Coelesyria and Phoenicia,
and unto them in Lebanon,
that they should bring Cedar
wood from Lebanon unto
Yerusalem, and that they
should build the city with him.
49 Moreover he wrote for all
the Yahudim that went out of
his realm up into Yahudea,
concerning their freedom,
that no officer, no ruler, no
Or, steward.
lieutenant, nor treasurer,
The Edomites
burnt the
1st Temple
and join to
defile the
2nd temple
in Psalm
83 which
occurred in
165 B.C.
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should forcibly enter into their Edomites =
Esau.
doors,
Edomites
50 And that all the country The
occupied
which they hold, should be Yerusalem
when
free without tribute, and that Yahudea was
taken into
the Edomites should give over captivity. In
Samaria for
the villages of the Yahudim the Northern
Tribes, there
which then they held,
occurred no
order
51 Yes that there should be such
from any
and
yearly given twenty talents to ruler
this is why
never
your building of the Temple, they
returned
until the time that it were built, toas Samaria
it was
52 Another ten talents yearly, occupied and
that power
to maintain the burnt offerings structure also
affirmed in
upon the Altar every day (as this account.
Yahudea is
they had a commandment to different as
they return
offer seventeen)
until after
53 And that all they that went Messiah.
from Babylon to build the city,
should have free liberty as well
they as their posterity, and all
the priests that went away.
54 He wrote also concerning
the charges, and the priest’s
vestments
wherein
they
minister:
55 And likewise for the
charges of the Levites, to be
given them, until the day that
the house were finished, and
Yerusalem builded up.
56 And he commanded to
give to all that kept the city, Or, portions
of land.
pensions and wages.
57 He sent away also all the
vessels from Babylon that
Cyrus had set apart, and
all that Cyrus had given in
commandment, the same he
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