Ezra Chapter 6 verse 2 Holy Bible
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written for a record:
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And at Achmetha, in the great house of the king in the land of Media, they came across a roll, in which this statement was put on record:
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And there was found at Achmetha in the fortress that is in the province of Media a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
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And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
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And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and in it was a record thus written:
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There was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a scroll, and therein was thus written for a record:
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and there hath been found at Achmetha, in a palace that `is' in the province of Media, a roll, and a record thus written within it `is':
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - There was found at Achmetha. Not "in a coffer," as our translators suggest in the margin, and as Aben Ezra and Jarchi interpret; but "at Ecbatana," which is expressed letter for letter by the word used in the original, except that the final n is dropped. Compare for this omission the passage of Harran into Carrhae, and of Shu-shan into Susa. In the palace that is in the province of the Medes. The palace of Ecbatana was very famous. Herodotus says that it was built by Deioces, the first Median king, occupied the centre of the town, and was defended by seven circles of walls, one inside the other (1:98). Polybius states that the building covered an area 1420 yards in circumference, and consisted of a number of halls and cloistered courts, supported by wooden pillars, of cypress or of cedar, both of which were coated with a plating of gold or silver, and supported roofs sloped at an angle, consisting of silver plates instead of the customary tiling (5:27, 10). This grannd building was the residence of the old Median monarchs, and also of Cyrus and Cambyses. Darius built himself still more magnificent residences at Susa and Persepolis; but both he and the later Achaemenian monarchs continued to use the Median palace as a summer residence, and it maintained its celebrity till the close of the empire (see Arrian, 'Exp. Alex.,' 3:19). A roll. According to Ctesias ('Died. Sic.,' 2:32), the Persians employed parchment or vellum for the material of their records, not baked clay, like the Assyrians and Babylonians, or paper, like the Egyptians. Parchment would be a suitable material for rolls, and no doubt was anciently used chiefly in that shape. Therein was a record thus written. The decree would no doubt be written, primarily, in the Persian language and the Persian cuneiform character; but it may have been accompanied by a Chaldaean transcript, of which Ezra may have obtained a copy. Public documents were commonly set forth by the Persians in more than one language (see 'Herod.,' 4:87; and comp. the 'Inscriptions,' passim, which are almost universally either bilingual or trilingual).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) At Achmetha.--That is, Ecbatana, the Median capital of Cyrus. It is probable that the original roll of parchment had been destroyed at Babylon by Smerdis, but a copy of it was found here, probably in a Chaldean transcript.
