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chapter 6
1
Then
king Darius gave orders, and they searched in the library of the books that
were laid up in Babylon,
2 And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in
the province of Media, a book in which this record was written.
3 In the first year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus the king
decreed, that the house of God should be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the
place where they may offer sacrifices, and that they lay the foundations that
may support the height of threescore cubits, and the breadth of threescore
cubits,
4 Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new
timber: and the charges shall be given out of the king's house.
5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the
temple of Cod, which Nabuchodonosor took out of the temple of Jerusalem, and
brought to Babylon, be restored, and carried back to the temple of Jerusalem to
their place, which also were placed in the temple of God.
6 Now therefore Thathanai, governor of the country
beyond the river, Stharbuzanai, and your counsellors the Apharsachites, who are
beyond the river, depart far from them,
7 And let that temple of God be built by the governor
of the Jews, and by their ancients, that they may build that house of God in
its place.
8 I also have commanded what must be done by those
ancients of the Jews, that the house of God may be built, to wit, that of the
king's chest, that is, of the tribute that is paid out of the country beyond
the river, the charges be diligently given to those men, lest the work be
hindered.
9 And if it shall be necessary, let calves also, and
lambs, and kids, for holocausts to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and
oil, according to the custom of the priests that are in Jerusalem, be given
them day by day, that there be no complaint in any thing.
10 And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven,
and pray for the life of the king, and of his children.
11 And I have made a decree: That ii any whosoever,
shall alter this commandment, a beam be taken from his house. and set up, and
he be nailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.
12 And may the God, that hath caused his name to dwell
there, destroy all kingdoms, and the people that shall put out their hand to
resist, and to destroy the house of God, that is in Jerusalem. I Darius have
made the decree, which I will have diligently complied with.
13 So then Thathanai, governor of the country beyond
the river, and Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors diligently executed what
Darius the king had commanded.
14 And the ancients of the Jews built and prospered
according to the prophecy of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias the son of
Addo: and they built and finished, by the commandment of the God of Israel, and
by the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kings of the Persians.
15 And they were finishing this house of God, until the
third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of
king Darius.
16 And the children of Israel, the priests and the
Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity kept the dedication of
the house of God with joy.
17 And they offered at the dedication of the house of
God, a, hundred calves, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and for a sin
offering for all Israel twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes
of Israel.
18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the
Levites in their courses over the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written
in the book of Moses.
19 And the children of Israel of the captivity kept the
phase, 0 on the fourteenth day of the first month.
20 For all the priests and the Levites were purified as
one man: all were clear to kill the phase for all the children of the
captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and themselves.
21 And the children of Israel that were returned from
captivity, and all that had separated themselves from the filthiness of the
nations of the earth to them, to seek the Lord the God of Israel, did eat.
22 And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven
days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of
the king of Assyria to them, that he should help their hands in the work of the
house of the Lord the God of Israel.
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