1. Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was made in the archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon.
2. And at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found, and in it a record was written thus:
3. In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus issued a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem: “Let the house be rebuilt, the place where they offered sacrifices; and let the foundations of it be firmly laid, its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,