Ezra 6:1-5 - Darius' Search For The Decree

¹ Then, Darius the king, issued an edict, - and they made search in the house of the books, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. ² And there was found in Achmetha, in the fortress which is in the province of Media, a roll, - and, thus, was it written therein, as a record: - ³ In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king, issued an edict, as to the house of God in Jerusalem, Let the house be built, the place where they used to offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be reared, - the height thereof, sixty cubits, the breadth thereof, sixty cubits; ⁴ layers of large stones, three, and one layer of new timber, - and, as for the expenses, out of the house of the king, let them be given. ⁵ Moreover also, the utensils of the house of God, of gold and silver, which, Nebuchadnezzar, took forth out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, let them again be taken to the temple which is in Jerusalem every one to its place, and lay them up in the house of God.