In the first year of his reign,<n id="1" /> King Cyrus gave orders concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem:<n id="2" /> &#8216;Let the temple be rebuilt as a place where sacrifices are offered. Let its foundations be set in place.<n id="3" /> Its height is to be ninety feet and its width ninety<n id="4" /> feet,<n id="5" />

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction<n id="1" /> and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.