Ezra 6:3 meaning and explanation
In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
Ezra 6:3, Berean Standard Bible
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These words are quoted from the memorandum King Cyrus of Persia issued in his first year, recovered from the archives at Ecbatana when Darius ordered a search. Cyrus authorizes the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple as a place of sacrifice and fixes its dimensions at sixty cubits high and wide, roughly ninety feet.
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