Ezra 6:14

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

through: Ezra 5:1, Ezra 5:2, Haggai 1:12-2 Chronicles :, Haggai 2:2-Ezra :, Zechariah 2:1 - Zechariah 4:14, Zechariah 6:1-Ezra :

finished it: Zechariah 4:9

according: Isaiah 44:28, Haggai 1:8

commandment: Chal, decree

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

Artaxerxes: This was Artaxerxes, the third son and successor of Xerxes, surnamed בךסןקויס, 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

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:38 - finished Ezra 7:7 - Artaxerxes Ezra 9:9 - to set up Esther 1:1 - Ahasuerus Ecclesiastes 9:10 - thy hand Daniel 10:1 - Cyrus Zechariah 1:16 - my house Zechariah 7:1 - the fourth