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Darius confirms Cyrus's decree

A search at Ecbatana uncovered the memorandum of Cyrus. Darius ordered Tattenai not only to leave the builders alone but to pay the construction costs and provide animals and supplies for daily offerings from the royal revenue (Ezra 6:1-12).

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📖 Ezra 6:1–3

1Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon. 2And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum: 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 foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

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