1 Then King Darius made a decree, and they searched the archives where the documents were stored in Babylon.
2 But a scroll was found in Ecbatana, the capital of the province of Media, on which was written the following:A memorandum—
3 In the first year of his rule, King Cyrus made a decree: Concerning God’s house in Jerusalem: Let the house at the place where they offered sacrifices be rebuilt and let its foundations be retained. Its height will be ninety feet and its width ninety feet,
4 with three layers of dressed stones and one layer of timber. The cost will be paid from the royal treasury.