发现塞鲁士王的谕旨

于是,大流士王下令查阅保存在巴比伦库房里的典籍。 在玛代省亚马他城的宫内找到一卷书,书中记载如下:

“塞鲁士王元年,塞鲁士王就耶路撒冷的上帝之殿降下谕旨,要重建这殿作献祭之处,要奠立殿的地基。殿要高二十七米、宽二十七米,

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The Decree of Darius

King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives(A) stored in the treasury at Babylon. A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it:

Memorandum:

In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem:

Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid.(B) It is to be sixty cubits[a] high and sixty cubits wide,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:3 That is, about 90 feet or about 27 meters