2. And there was found in the coffer of the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
3. In the first year of Cyrus, the king, the same Cyrus, the king, gave a commandment concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, that the house be built as a place for sacrifices to be offered, and let the walls thereof be covered; the height thereof sixty cubits, and the breadth thereof sixty cubits;
4. the orders, three of stones of marble and one order of new timber and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.