Quotes about Authority
Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are restored, they will not pay tribute, duty, or toll, and the royal treasury will suffer.
— Ezra 4:13
We advise the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are restored, you will have no dominion west of the Euphrates.
— Ezra 4:16
And mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem and exercised authority over the whole region west of the Euphrates; and tribute, duty, and toll were paid to them.
— Ezra 4:20
Now, therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.
— Ezra 4:21
At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates went to the Jews and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
— Ezra 5:3
The report they sent him read as follows: To King Darius: All peace.
— Ezra 5:7
So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
— Ezra 5:9
In response, Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed.
— Ezra 6:13
You are sent by the king and his seven counselors to evaluate Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand.
— Ezra 7:14
And be advised that you have no authority to impose tribute, duty, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
— Ezra 7:24
Then I summoned the leaders: Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, as well as the teachers Joiarib and Elnathan.
— Ezra 8:16
I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.
— Nehemiah 2:7