The Decree of Darius

Then King Darius issued a decree, (A)and a search was made in the [a]archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon. And at [b]Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of (B)Media, a scroll was found, and in it a record was written thus:

In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus issued a (C)decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem: “Let the house be rebuilt, the place where they offered sacrifices; and let the foundations of it be firmly laid, its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:1 Lit. house of the scrolls
  2. Ezra 6:2 Probably Ecbatana, the ancient capital of Media

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