1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the scrolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
2 And there was found at Ecbatana, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a scroll, and in it was a record thus written:
3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be built, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; its height threescore cubits, and its breadth threescore cubits;
4 With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house: