Ezra 6:10-12

Common English Bible

¹⁰ so that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the lives of the king and his sons.

¹¹ I also decree that if anyone disobeys this edict, a beam is to be pulled out of the house of the guilty party, and the guilty party will then be impaled upon it. The house will be turned into a trash heap.

¹² May the God who has established his name there overthrow any king or people who try to change this order or to destroy God’s house in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have decreed it; let it be done with all diligence.