Ezra 6:1
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 thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
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Compare
- BSB
- Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
- ASV
- Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
- DARBY
- Then king Darius gave orders, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
- BLB
- Then Darius the king made a decree, and they searched in the house of the books of the treasuries placed there in Babylon.
- ÅB
- Da gav kong Darius befaling til å granske etter i arkivet, som var lagt ned i skattkammeret i Babel.
- OTB
- Kong Dareios utstedte en befaling, og det ble gjort et søk i arkivene der skattene ble oppbevart i Babylon.
- B1930
- Da gav kong Darius befaling til å granske efter i arkivet, som var lagt ned i skattkammeret i Babel.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezra 5:17
Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
Read in contextProverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Read in contextEzra 4:15
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:2–4
Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
Read in contextRevelation 5:1
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:20–23
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
Read in contextEzra 4:19
And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
Read in contextJob 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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