Ezra 6:2
1 Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:
3 In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
4 with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:
- KJV
- 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:
- WEB
- 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:
- ASV
- And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written for a record:
- DARBY
- And there was found at Achmetha in the fortress that is in the province of Media a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
- BLB
- And was found at Achmetha, in a palace that [is] in the province of Media, one scroll, and thus [was] written in it: Memorandum:
- ÅB
- Og i borgen Ahmeta, som ligger i landskapet Media, ble det funnet en skriftrull; og i den sto det skrevet slik til ihukommelse:
- OTB
- I borgen i Ekbatana i provinsen Media ble en bokrull funnet, og følgende var skrevet: Memorandum—
- B1930
- Og i borgen Ahmeta, som ligger i landskapet Media, blev det funnet en skriftrull; og i den stod det skrevet således til ihukommelse:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
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