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Ezra 6
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Darius’s Search

6King Darius gave the order, and they searched in the library of Babylon in the archives.H116H1868H4430H7761H2942H1240H1005H5609H8536H1596H5182H895
2But it was in the fortress of Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found with this record written on it:H7912H307H1001H4083H4076H2298H4040H1459H1799H3652H3790
3In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree 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. Its height is to be 90 feet and its width 90 feet,H2298H8140H3567H4430H3567H4430H7761H2942H1005H426H3390H1005H1124H870H1684H1685H787H5446H7314H8361H521H6613H8361H521
4with three layers of cut stones and one of timber. The cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.H8532H5073H1560H69H5073H2323H636H5313H3052H4481H4430H1005
5The 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, and put into the house of God.H638H1722H3702H3984H1005H426H5020H5312H4481H1965H3390H2987H895H8421H1946H1965H3390H870H5182H1005H426

Darius’s Decree

6Therefore, you must stay away from that place, Tattenai governor of the region west of the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and your colleagues, the officials in the region.H3705H8674H6347H5675H5103H8370H3675H671H5675H5103H1934H7352H4481H8536
7Leave the construction of this house of God alone. Let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its [original] site.H5673H1791H1005H426H7662H6347H3062H7868H3062H1124H1791H1005H426H5922H870
8I hereby issue a decree concerning what you must do, so that the elders of the Jews can rebuild this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men out of the royal revenues from the taxes of the region west of the Euphrates River, so that the [work] will not stop.H4481H7761H2942H3964H5648H5974H7868H479H3062H1124H1791H1005H426H4430H5232H1768H4061H5675H5103H629H5313H1934H3052H479H1400H3809H989
9Whatever is needed— young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, or wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem— let it be given to them every day without fail,H4101H2818H1123H8450H1798H563H5928H426H8065H2591H4416H2562H4887H3983H3549H3390H1934H3052H3118H3118H3809H7960
10so that they can offer sacrifices of pleasing aroma to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.H1934H7127H5208H426H8065H6739H2417H4430H1123
11I also issue a decree concerning any man who interferes with this directive: Let a beam be torn from his house and raised up; he will be impaled on it, and his house will be made into a garbage dump because of this [offense].H4481H7761H2942H3606H606H8133H1836H6600H636H5256H4481H1005H2211H4223H5922H1005H5648H5122H5922H1836
12May the God who caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who dares to harm or interfere with this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out diligently.H426H8036H7932H8536H4049H3606H4430H5972H7972H3028H8133H2255H1791H1005H426H3390H576H1868H7761H2942H5648H629
13Then Tattenai governor of the region west of the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and their colleagues diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed.H116H8674H6347H5675H5103H8370H3675H6903H1868H4430H7972H3660H5648H629
14So the Jewish elders continued successfully with the building under the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.H7868H3062H1124H6744H5017H2292H5029H2148H1247H5714H1124H3635H4481H2941H426H3479H2942H3567H1868H783H4430H6540
15This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.H1836H1005H3319H5705H8532H3118H3393H144H1932H8353H8140H4437H1868H4430

Temple Dedication and the Passover

16Then the Israelites, including the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.H1123H3479H3549H3879H7606H1123H1547H5648H2597H1836H1005H426H2305
17For the dedication of God's house they offered 100 bulls, 200 rams, and 400 lambs, as well as 12 male goats as a sin offering for all Israel— one for each Israelite tribe.H7127H2597H1836H1005H426H3969H8450H3969H1798H703H3969H563H2402H2409H5922H3606H3479H8648H6236H6841H5796H4510H7625H3479
18They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the book of Moses.H6966H3549H6392H3879H4255H5922H5673H426H3390H3792H5609H4873
19The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.H1121H1473H6213H6453H702H6240H7223H2320
20All of the priests and Levites were ceremonially clean, because they had purified themselves. They killed the Passover lamb for themselves, their priestly brothers, and all the exiles.H3548H3881H2891H259H2889H7819H6453H1121H1473H251H3548
21The Israelites who had returned from exile ate [it], together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land in order to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.H1121H3478H7725H1473H914H2932H1471H776H1875H3068H430H3478H398
22They observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful, having changed the Assyrian king's attitude toward them, so that he supported them in the work on the house of the God of Israel.H6213H2282H4682H7651H3117H8057H3068H8055H5437H3820H4428H804H2388H3027H4399H1004H430H430H3478


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