Ezra 6:2

And there was found at Ecbatana, which is a fortified place in the province of Media, one volume, and this record was written in it:

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And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

In Context

1Then king Darius instructed, and they searched in the library of books that were deposited in Babylon.

3“In the first year of king Cyrus, Cyrus the king decreed that the house of God, which is in Jerusalem, shall be built in the place where they immolate victims, and that they should set the foundations so as to support a height of sixty cubits and a width of sixty cubits,

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Matthew Henry on Ezra 6:2-13

The Favourable Decree of Darius. ( b. c. 519.) 1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. 2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written: 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations… Read the whole commentary →

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