Ezra 6:1 BSB — MannaFest

Ezra 6:1

Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

4 voices

Bede

Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah (735)

Then King Darius commanded, etc. Josephus (Antiq. XI, 3) mentioned the name of the place where these letters of Cyrus were found thus: And a book was found in Ecbatana in a constructed tower, in the region of Media. Moreover, another translation has it thus: …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But, when it was not found there, Darius did not make that a pretence to conclude that therefore there was no such decree, and thereupon to give judgment against the Jews; but it is probable, having himself heard that such a decree was certainly made, he ordered the rolls in other places to be searched, and at length it was found at Achmetha, in the province of the Medes,

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

A “house of the rolls” was discovered at Koyunjik, the ancient Nineveh, in 1850 - a set of chambers, i. e., in the palace devoted exclusively to the storing of public documents. These were in baked clay, and covered the floor to the depth of more than a foot. Such a “house” was probably that at Babylon.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The cuneiform characters on most of them were singularly sharp and well-defined, but so minute in some instances as to be almost illegible without a magnifying glass.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בֵּאדַ֛יִן	be.Da.yin	<in> then	H116 →
דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ	da.re.Ya.vesh	Darius	H1868 →
מַלְכָּ֖א	mal.Ka'	king the	H4430 →
שָׂ֣ם	sam	he made	H7761 →
טְעֵ֑ם	te.'Em	a decree	H2942 →
וּבַקַּ֣רוּ׀	u.va.Ka.ru	and they searched	H1240 →
בְּבֵ֣ית	be.Veit	in [the] house	H1005 →
סִפְרַיָּ֗א	sif.rai.Ya'	books the	H5609 →
דִּ֧י	di	where	H1768 →
גִנְזַיָּ֛א	gin.zai.Ya'	treasures the	H1596 →
מְהַחֲתִ֥ין	me.ha.cha.Tin	[were] deposited	H5182 →
תַּמָּ֖ה	ta.Mah	there	H8536 →
בְּבָבֶֽל׃	be.va.Vel	in Babylon	H895 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 40:7
Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll:
leads to
- Hebrews 10:7–9
  Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”
- Luke 24:44
  Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets,…
- John 5:39
  You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
- Luke 24:27
  And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.
Through
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 29:29
  The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
- Romans 11:33–34
  O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Job 11:7–8
  Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
- Job 38:4
  Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.