OLD TESTAMENT

Ezra 5:17

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Now 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 by Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”

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Verse 17. Library. Septuagint “treasury-house.” Arab. “for the archives.” It is called “the house of books.” Calmet. 6:1. Calmet.

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