OLD TESTAMENT

Ezra 6:1

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Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.

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Verse 1. Library. Prot. “house of the rolls, where the treasures were,” and so forth—Babylon. In the city, the search was fruitless: (Vatab.) but in the kingdom, the record was discovered. Menochius.

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