Ezra 6:1

King Darius ordered a search of the Babylonian archives. The king acted to verify the Jews' claim about Cyrus's decree.

Cross-references · 13

• Ezra 5:17Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”
• Prov 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
• Ezra 4:15that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.
• Rev 5:1I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
• Jer 36:20–23They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.
• Jer 36:29Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?’”’
• Job 29:16I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.
• Jer 36:32Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.
• Ezra 4:19I decreed, and search has been made, and it was found that this city has made insurrection against kings in the past, and that rebellion and revolts have been made in it.
• Ps 40:7Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
• Jer 36:2–4“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
• Ezek 2:9When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;
• Ezek 3:1He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”

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