captains and governors, that they should safely convey on their
way both him, and all those that go up with him to build
Jerusalem.

1Esdr 4:48
He wrote letters also unto the lieutenants that were in
Celosyria and Phenice, and unto them in Libanus, that they
should bring cedar wood from Libanus unto Jerusalem, and that
they should build the city with him.

1Esdr 4:49
Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm
up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no
ruler, no lieutenant, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into
their doors;

1Esdr 4:50
And that all the country which they hold should be free
without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the
villages of the Jews which then they held:

1Esdr 4:51
Yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the
building of the temple, until the time that it were built;

1Esdr 4:52
And other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings
upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer
seventeen: