Ezra 6:2-4

Orthodox Jewish Bible

² And there was found at Achmeta, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a megillah, and therein was a record thus written;

³ In the first year of Koresh the Melech, Koresh the Melech made a decree concerning the Beis Elohim at Yerushalayim, Let the Beis [Hamikdash] be built, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

⁴ With three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber; and let the expenses be given out of the Melech’s treasury;