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What does Ezra 6:1 mean?
"Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched."
— Ezra 6:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:
In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits;
with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
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