A moment in scripture
Ezra 6:1
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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.
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The surrounding passage
- Ezra 6:2
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:
- Ezra 6:3
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;
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.