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Ezra 6:1
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
Ezra 6:1 in other translations
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.
Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
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.
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In context
1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
2 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:
3 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;
4 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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