26. Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgement be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
27. Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the Lord’s house which is in Jerusalem;
28. and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the Lord my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.