Darius Searches for Cyrus's Decree

Ezra 6:1-5

Then King Darius gaue commandement, and they made search in the librarie of the treasures, which were there layd vp in Babel.

And there was founde in a coffer (in the palace that was in the prouince of the Medes) a volume, and therein was it thus written, as a memoriall,

IN THE FIRST yeere of King Cyrus, King Cyrus made a decree for the house of God in Ierusalem, Let the house be buylt, euen the place where they offred sacrifices, and let the walles thereof be ioyned together: let the height thereof be three score cubites, and the breadth thereof three score cubites,

Three orders of great stones, and one order of timber, and let the expenses be giuen of the Kings house.

And also let them render the vessels of the house of God (of golde and siluer, which Nebuchadnezzar tooke out of the Temple, which was in Ierusalem, and brought vnto Babel) and let him goe vnto the Temple that is in Ierusalem to his place, and put them in the house of God.

Darius Searches for Cyrus's Decree

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