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Ezra 6

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22 verses in KJV · 209 outgoing cross-reference links

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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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Historical / attribution context

Traditional writer attribution: Ezra

Approximate study chronology: c. 515 BC

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