Ezra 6:1-3

Christian Standard Bible

Darius’s Search

6 King Darius gave the order, and they searched^(A) in the library of Babylon in the archives.^{[a](B) 2} But it was in the fortress of Ecbatana in the province of Media^(C) that a scroll was found with this record written on it:

³ In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree^(D) concerning the house of God in Jerusalem:

Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its original foundations be retained.^[b] Its height is to be ninety feet^[c] and its width ninety feet,^(E)