Add parallel Print Page Options

Cyrus’ Book Found

Then King Darius had men look through the books which were kept in Babylon. And in Ecbatana, the most important city in the land of Media, a book was found in which was written: “In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king said that this was to be done about the house of God at Jerusalem: ‘Let the house of God, the place where burnt gifts are given in worship, be built again with a good base. It should be sixteen times taller than a man, and as wide as thirty long steps.

Read full chapter