1 Esdras 4:45-47

Revised Standard Version

⁴⁵ You also vowed to build the temple, which the E′domites burned when Judea was laid waste by the Chalde′ans. ⁴⁶ And now, O lord the king, this is what I ask and request of you, and this befits your greatness. I pray therefore that you fulfil the vow whose fulfilment you vowed to the King of heaven with your own lips.”

⁴⁷ Then Darius the king rose, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him to all the treasurers and governors and generals and satraps, that they should give escort to him and all who were going up with him to build Jerusalem.