King James Version (KJV)
Ezra 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:”
Verse in context — Ezra 6
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.
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:
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;
[With] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:
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