Ezra 6:1

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Summary

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.

And search

Rolls

Revelation 5:1

Bible References

And search

That it may be sought in the Chronicles of thy progenitors, and so shalt thou find in the same Chronicles, and perceive, that this city is seditious and noisome unto kings and lands, and that they cause others also to rebel of the old, and for the same cause was this city destroyed.

If it please the king now, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is at Babylon, whether it have been king Cyrus' commandment, that the house of God at Jerusalem should be builded: and send us the king's mind concerning the same."

I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently.

It is the honour of God to keep a thing secret; but the king's honour is to search out a thing.

Rolls

Then said I, "Lo, I come. In the beginning of the book it is written of me,

"Take a book, and write therein all the words, that I have spoken to thee, to Israel, to Judah, and to all the people, from the time that I began for to speak unto thee in the reign of Josiah, unto this day.

So as I was looking up, behold, there was sent unto me a hand, wherein was a closed book:

After this said he unto me, "Thou son of man, eat that, whatsoever it be: Yea, eat that closed book, and go thy way, and speak unto the children of Israel."

And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat in the throne, a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.