Darius searches; Cyrus’ decree is found

1Then King Darius issued a decree, and they searched in the house of the archives, where the treasures were stored, there in Babylon.

2And in Ecbatana, the fortress that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found, and this was written in it as a record:

3In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God in Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. Its height shall be sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits,

4with three layers of dressed stone and one layer of new timber, and let the cost be given from the king’s house.

5And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be returned and brought to the temple that is in Jerusalem, each to its place; and you shall put them in the house of God.