Ezra 7:20 meaning and explanation

And if anything else is needed for the house of your God that you may have occasion to supply, you may pay for it from the royal treasury.

Ezra 7:20, Berean Standard Bible

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Ezra 7:20 comes from King Artaxerxes of Persia's written decree to Ezra, the priest and scribe, during the Persian period after the exile. The king authorizes the temple's needs to be paid directly from the royal treasury, an extraordinary grant that placed imperial resources behind the rebuilding and upkeep of worship in Jerusalem.

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