1 Esdras 6:8–9
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8“To King Darius, greeting. Let it be fully known to our lord the king that, when we went to the country of Judea and entered the city of Jerusalem, we found the elders of the Jews, who had been in captivity, 9building in the city of Jerusalem a great new house for the Lord, of hewn stone, with costly timber laid in the walls.
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