CHAPTER EXPLORER
Ezra 6
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22 verses in KJV · 209 outgoing cross-reference links
Opening verses of Ezra 6 (KJV)
6:1 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.
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:
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;
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Traditional writer attribution: Ezra
Approximate study chronology: c. 515 BC
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