Ezra 6:1
Then Darius the king made a decree, and caused a search to be made in the record offices, where the treasure is stored in Babylon.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2And there was found in the city, in the palace, a volume, and this was the record written in it.
Cross References
Ezra 4:15that examination may be made in thy fathers’ book of record; and thou shalt find, and thou shalt know that that city is rebellious, and does harm to kings and countries, and there are in the midst of it from very old time refuges for runaway slaves: therefore this city has been made desolate.
Ezra 5:17And now, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the treasure house of the king at Babylon, that thou mayest know if it be that a decree was made by King Cyrus to build that house of God that was in Jerusalem, and let the king send to us when he has learned concerning this matter.
Psalms 40:7And if he came to see me, his heart spoke vainly; 1 He gathered iniquity to himself; 1 He went forth and spoke in like manner. 1
Jeremiah 36:2(after the departure of Jechoniah the king and the queen, and the eunuchs, and every freeman, and bondman, and artificer, out of Jerusalem);
Jeremiah 36:29And Zephaniah read the book in the ears of Jeremiah.
Ezekiel 2:9And I looked, and behold, a hand stretched out to me, and in it a volume of a book.
Matthew Henry on Ezra 6:1
How solemnly the foundation of the temple was laid we read in ch. iii. How slowly the building went on, and with how much difficulty, we found in ch. iv. and v. But how gloriously the topstone was at length brought forth with shoutings we find in this chapter; and even we, at this distance of time, when we read of it, may cry, "Grace, grace to it." As for God, his work is perfect; it may be slow work, but it will be sure work. We have here, I. A recital of the decree of Cyrus for the building of the temple, ver.… Read the whole commentary →