1. Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
2. And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written for a record:
3. In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;