the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Ezra 6:2
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But it was in the fortress of Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found with this record written on it:
There was found at Achmeta, in the palace that is in the province of Madai, a scroll, and therein was thus written for a record:
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:
And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record.
A scroll was found in Ecbatana, the capital city of Media. This is what was written on it: Note:
A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana which is in the province of Media, and it was inscribed as follows: "Memorandum:
In Ecbatana in the fortress (palace) in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was recorded: "Memorandum—
And in Ecbatana, in the fortress which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found; and the following was written in it: "Memorandum—
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:
And there was founde in a coffer (in the palace that was in the prouince of the Medes) a volume, and therein was it thus written, as a memoriall,
And in Ecbatana in the fortress, which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found and there was written in it as follows: "Memorandum—
And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:
Finally, a scroll was found in Ecbatana, the capital of Media Province, and it said: This official record will show
and there was found at Achm'ta, in the palace which is in the province of Media, a scroll on which was written the following: "Memorandum:
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:
A scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana. (Ecbatana is in the province of Media.) This is what was written on that scroll: Official Note:
And there was found in the city of Akhmathan, which is in the province of Media, a scroll, and in the scroll was written:
But it was in the city of Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found, containing the following record:
But it was in Ecbatana in the province of Media, in the citadel, that a certain scroll had written on it, "A record.
And there was found in Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a scroll. And in it was a record written thus:
So at Egbathanis in a castell that lyeth in the londe of the Meedes, there was founde a boke, & in it was there an acte wrytten after this maner:
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:
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:
And there was found at Ahmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written: 'A record.
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the prouince of the Medes, a rolle, and therein was a record thus written:
And there was found in the city, in the palace, a volume, and this was the record written in it.
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.
And o book was foundun in Egbatanys, which is a castel in the prouynce of Medena, and sich a sentence of the kyng was writun therynne.
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:
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:
And at Achmetha, [fn] in the palace that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found, and in it a record was written thus:
But it was at the fortress at Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found. This is what it said: "Memorandum:
And in Ecbatana, the most important city in the land of Media, a book was found in which was written:
But it was in Ecbatana, the capital in the province of Media, that a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record.
And there was found in Achmetha, in the fortress which is in the province of Media, a roll, - and, thus, was it written therein, as a record: -
And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in the province of Media, a book in which this record was written.
And in Ecbat'ana, the capital which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record.
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]:
In Ecbatana in the fortress, which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found and there was written in it as follows: "Memorandum—
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
at Achmetha: or, at Ecbatana, or, in a coffer, ××××ª× [Strong's H712], probably from the Persian Mx, kham, "a house for a summer residence," with a prefix, ×, aleph, and the Chaldee termination )t, tha, most likely denotes Ecbatana, as the Vulgate and Josephus read, the summer residence of the Persian monarchs. It was situated in a mountainous region at the foot of mount Orontes, or Jasonius, according to Ammianus, on the southern confines of Media and Persia, and according to Pliny, 750 miles from Seleucia the Great, 20 miles from the Caspian passes, 450 miles from Susa, and the same from Gaze Atropatene, and in lat. 37 degrees 45 min., long. 88 degrees, according to Ptolemy. The building of the city is ascribed to Semiramis by Diodorus, but to Deioces by Eusebius (in Chron. Ezra 1:1), and Herodotus, who states that it was surrounded by seven walls, strong and ample, built in circles one within another, rising each above each by the height of their respective battlements; each being distinguished by a different colour, the first white, the second black, the third purple, the fourth blue, the fifth orange, the sixth plated with silver, and the seventh with gold. The largest of these was nearly the extent of Athens, i.e., 200 furlongs, according to Dion Chrysostom; but Diodorus Siculus states the circumference of Ecbatana to be 250 furlongs. Within the inner circle stood the king's palace and the royal treasury, so much celebrated for its splendour and riches by Polybius. It is highly probable, as D'Anville and Major Rennel suppose, that the present Hamadan, whose ruins attest its former splendour, occupies the site of Ecbatana. It is situated in Al Gebal, at the foot of the lofty mountain Alwend, about 80 leagues from Ispahan, and also from Bagdad.
Reciprocal: Ezra 2:1 - the children Ezra 4:19 - search Ezra 5:17 - let there be Nehemiah 7:6 - the children Jeremiah 36:2 - a roll Acts 2:9 - Medes
Cross-References
And so the woman, seing that the same tree was good to eate of, and pleasaunt to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, toke of the fruite therof, and dyd eate, and gaue also vnto her husbande beyng with her, and he dyd eate.
And vnto the same Seth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to make inuocation in the name of the Lorde.
And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:
And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.
And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.
But there were Giantes in those dayes in ye earth: yea & after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of me, and hadde begotten chyldren of them, the same became myghtie men of the worlde, and men of renowme.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth, & he was touched with sorowe in his heart.
And the Lorde sayde: I wyll from the vpper face of the earth, destroy man whom I haue created, from man vnto cattell, vnto worme, and vnto foules of the ayre: For it repenteth me that I haue made them.
But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.
And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And there was found at Achmetha,.... Which Jarchi and Aben Ezra take to be the name of a vessel in which letters and writings were put for safety; but it was no doubt the name of a place; the Vulgate Latin version has it Ecbatana; and so Josephus s; which was the name of a city in Media, where the kings of that country had their residence in the summer time t; for it has its name from heat u; the Persian kings dwelt at Shushan in the winter, and at Ecbatana in the summer w; hence they are compared by Aelian x to cranes, birds of passage, because of their going to and from the above places:
in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, here was found
a roll; which was the decree of Cyrus, which perhaps he took with him when he went thither:
and therein was a record thus written; as follows.
s Antiqu. l. 11. c. 4. sect. 6. t Curtius, l. 5. c. 8. Vid. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 6. u Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 618. w Athen. Deipnosophist, l. 12. c. 1. x De Animal. l. 3. c. 13.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
âAchmethaâ is the âEcbatana,â or âAgbatana,â of the Greeks, the Persian name for which, as we find in the Behistun Inscription, was HaGMaTANa.
We must suppose that, when Babylon had been searched in vain, the other cities which possessed record-offices were visited, and the decree looked for in them. Ecbatana was the capital of Cyrus.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezra 6:2. At Achmetha — Ecbatana in India, whither it is probable all the records of Cyrus had been carried. This was a sort of summer residence for the kings of Persia.
