'Statement' in the Bible

Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying,

And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

And at Achmetha, in the great house of the king in the land of Media, they came across a roll, in which this statement was put on record:

Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

And they made a public statement through all Judah and Jerusalem, to all those who had come back, that they were to come together to Jerusalem;