² Thus says Cyrus king of Persia:

All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has ^(A)commanded me to build Him a ^[a]house at Jerusalem which is in Judah.

³ In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus issued a ^(A)decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem: “Let the house be rebuilt, the place where they offered sacrifices; and let the foundations of it be firmly laid, its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,