1 Esdras 4:48-50

Revised Standard Version

⁴⁸ And he wrote letters to all the governors in Coelesyria and Phoenic′ia and to those in Leb′anon, to bring cedar timber from Leb′anon to Jerusalem, and to help him build the city. ⁴⁹ And he wrote for all the Jews who were going up from his kingdom to Judea, in the interest of their freedom, that no officer or satrap or governor or treasurer should forcibly enter their doors; ⁵⁰ that all the country which they would occupy should be theirs without tribute; that the Idume′ans should give up the villages of the Jews which they held;