Ezra 6:1-5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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 twenty-seven metres^[c] and its width twenty-seven metres,^{(E) 4} with three layers of cut^[d] stones and one of timber.^(F) The cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.^{[e](G) 5} The gold and silver articles of God’s house that Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon must also be returned. They are to be brought to the temple in Jerusalem where they belong^[f] and put into the house of God.^(H)