1 Esdras 4:47-49

Revised Standard Version

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. ⁴⁸ And he wrote letters to all the governors in Coelesyria and Phoenic′ia and to those in Leb′anon, to bring cedar timber from Leb′anon to Jerusalem, and to help him build the city. ⁴⁹ And he wrote for all the Jews who were going up from his kingdom to Judea, in the interest of their freedom, that no officer or satrap or governor or treasurer should forcibly enter their doors;