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46 And now, lord, this it is that I ask, and that I bid; this is the majesty that I ask of thee, that thou do the vow that thou vowedest to the King of heaven, of (or with) thy mouth.

47 Then Darius, the king, rising kissed him, and wrote epistles to all the dispensators, and prefects, and to men clothed in purple, that they should lead him forth, and them that were with him, all wending up [or all going up] to build Jerusalem.

48 And to all the prefects that were in (Celo)Syria and Phenice (or in Greater Syria and Phoenicia), and (in) Lebanon, he wrote epistles, that they should draw (up) cedar trees from the hill Lebanon into Jerusalem, (and) that they build up the city with them.

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