1 Esdras 4:41-43

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁴¹ When he stopped speaking, all the people shouted and said, “Great is truth and strongest of all!”

Zerubbabel’s Reward

⁴² Then the king said to Zerubbabel,^[a] “Ask what you wish, even beyond what is written, and we will give it to you, for you have been found to be the wisest. You shall sit next to me and be called my Kinsman.”^{(A) 43} Then he said to the king, “Remember the vow that you made on the day when you became king, to build Jerusalem