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Ezra 6:2

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And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written for a record:

KJV

And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

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This verse in Ezra 6

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Achmetha--long supposed to be the capital of Greater Media (the Ecbatana of classical, the Hamadan of modern times), [is] at the foot of the Elwund range of hills, where, for its coolness and salubrity, Cyrus and his successors on the Persian throne established their summer residence.

This site's exposition

the house of the rolls

on Ezra 6:1-2

Darius orders the archive searched, and the roll does not turn up in Babylon but at Achmetha in Media, the summer residence of the Persian kings where records travelled with the court. Cyrus's decree had lain filed for years, safe from the same officials who now doubt it exists. Matthew Henry reads the discovery as providence: the record was hidden from ill will yet came to light on its own schedule. The empire's own paperwork ends up vindicating the very people some in that empire wanted stopped.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Perhaps some that durst not destroy it, yet hid it there, out of ill will to the Jews, that they might lose the benefit of it. But Providence so ordered that it came to light; and it is here inserted,

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֣חand it was found

    vehishtekhachH7912 →18 times

  • בְּאַחְמְתָ֗אin Ecbatana

    beachmeta'H307 →

  • בְּבִֽירְתָ֛אin citadel the

    bevireta'H1001 →

  • דִּ֛יwhich

    diH1768 →345 times

  • בְּמָדַ֥י[is] in Media

    bemadaiH4076 →

  • מְדִינְתָּ֖הprovince the

    medinetah'H4083 →11 times

  • מְגִלָּ֣הa scroll

    megilahH4040 →

  • חֲדָ֑הone

    chadahH2298 →14 times

  • וְכֵן־and as follows

    vekhen-H3652 →

  • כְּתִ֥יבit was written

    ketivH3790 →8 times

  • בְּגַוַּ֖הּin midst its

    begavahH1459 →13 times

  • דִּכְרוֹנָֽה׃ פ<the> memorandum

    dikhronah'H1799 →3 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Jeremiah 36:2“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.3 worksActs 2:9Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,2 worksEzra 2:1Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,2 worksNehemiah 7:6These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,2 works2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.1 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Kings 17:6

    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the…

    it leads to

    • Hosea 13:16

      Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

    • Deuteronomy 28:64

      Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…

    • 1 Chronicles 5:26

      So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And…

    • Isaiah 13:17

      Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

    • Deuteronomy 28:36

      The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

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About Ezra

Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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