Ezra 6:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then King Darius made a decree, and they searched the archives where the documents were stored in Babylon.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

THEN KING Darius [I] decreed, and a search was made in Babylonia in the house where the treasured records were stored.

American Standard Version (1901)

Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

Common English Bible

Then King Darius made a decree, and they searched the archives where the documents were stored in Babylon.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then king Darius instructed, and they searched in the library of books that were deposited in Babylon.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Then king Darius gave orders; and they searched in the library of the books that were laid up in Babylon,

Ezra 6:1 Cross References

Ezra 4:15

so that a search may be made in the annals of your ancestors. You will discover in the annals that this is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from long ago. On that account this city was laid waste.

Ezra 4:19

So I made a decree, and someone searched and discovered that this city has risen against kings from long ago and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.

Ezra 5:17

And now, if it seems good to the king, have a search made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by King Cyrus for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. Let the king send us his pleasure in this matter.”

Ezra 6:22

With joy they celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread seven days, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.

Ezra 7:13

I decree that any of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom who freely offers to go to Jerusalem may go with you.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.

Psalm 40:7

Then I said, “Here I am; in the scroll of the book it is written of me.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

Jeremiah 36:29

And concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah you shall say: Thus says the Lord, You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and will cut off from it human beings and animals?”

Jeremiah 36:32

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the secretary Baruch son of Neriah, who wrote on it at Jeremiah’s dictation all the words of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned in the fire, and many similar words were added to them.

Ezekiel 2:9

I looked, and a hand was stretched out to me, and a written scroll was in it.

Ezekiel 3:1

He said to me, “O mortal, eat what is offered to you; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”

Daniel 9:25

Know therefore and understand: from the time that the word went out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks, and for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with streets and moat, but in a troubled time.

Revelation 5:1

Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals,