With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:
All Commentaries on Ezra 6:4 Go To Ezra 6
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Unpolished, to correspond with the polished stones and cedar employed by Solomon, 3 Kings vi. 36. (Menochius)
Protestants, "great stones. "See chap. v. 8.
Charges. It appears that the Jews furnished money and meat to pay for the wood, chap. i. 4., and iii. 7. Some annual sum might be assigned by Cyrus, either for the building, or for the daily holocausts. (Calmet)