1. Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
2. A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:
3. In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits;