Bible verse
Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
Ezra 6:1 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ezra 6.
1 Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
2 And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:
3 In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
4 with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.
5 Furthermore, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, must also be returned to the temple in Jerusalem and deposited in the house of God.
KJV
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.
ASV
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.
ERV
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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