¹⁶ “So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God^(A) in Jerusalem. From that day to the present it has been under construction but is not yet finished.”

³ In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem:

Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid.^(A) It is to be sixty cubits^[a] high and sixty cubits wide,