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Ezra 6:14

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And the elders: Ezra 3:8, Ezra 4:3

through: Ezra 5:1-2; Haggai 1:12-14, Haggai 2:2-15; Zech. 2:1-4:14, Zechariah 6:1-15

finished it: Zechariah 4:9

according: Isaiah 44:28; Haggai 1:8

commandment: Chal, decree

Cyrus: Ezra 6:13, Ezra 1:1-4, Ezra 4:24, Ezra 5:13

Artaxerxes: This was Artaxerxes, the third son and successor of Xerxes, surnamed Μακροχειρ:, or Longimanus, or in Persian, Ardsheer deeraz dest:, "Ardsheer the long-handed;" so called, according to the Greeks, from the extra-ordinary length of his hands, but according to the Easterners, from the extent of his dominions. He ascended the Persian throne, am 3540, bc 464, and reigned forty-one years. He is said to have been the most handsome person of his age, and to have been a prince of a very mild and generous disposition. Ezra 7:1

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