Ezra 6:2

Easy-to-Read Version

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:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But it was in the fortress of Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found with this record written on it:

Hebrew Names Version
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:

King James Version
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:

English Standard Version
And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record.

New Century Version
A scroll was found in Ecbatana, the capital city of Media. This is what was written on it: Note:

New English Translation
A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana which is in the province of Media, and it was inscribed as follows: "Memorandum:

Amplified Bible
In Ecbatana in the fortress (palace) in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was recorded: "Memorandum—

New American Standard Bible
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—

World English Bible
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:

Geneva Bible (1587)
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,

Legacy Standard Bible
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—

Berean Standard Bible
And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

Contemporary English Version
Finally, a scroll was found in Ecbatana, the capital of Media Province, and it said: This official record will show

Complete Jewish Bible
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:

Darby Translation
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:

George Lamsa Translation
And there was found in the city of Akhmathan, which is in the province of Media, a scroll, and in the scroll was written:

Good News Translation
But it was in the city of Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found, containing the following record:

Lexham English Bible
But it was in Ecbatana in the province of Media, in the citadel, that a certain scroll had written on it, "A record.

Literal Translation
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:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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:

American Standard Version
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:

Bible in Basic English
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:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there was found in a coffer in the palace that is in the prouince of the Medes, a volume: and therein was it thus written as a memoriall.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.

King James Version (1611)
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:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there was found in the city, in the palace, a volume, and this was the record written in it.

English Revised Version
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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.

Update Bible Version
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:

Webster's Bible Translation
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:

New King James Version
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:

New Living Translation
But it was at the fortress at Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found. This is what it said: "Memorandum:

New Life Bible
And in Ecbatana, the most important city in the land of Media, a book was found in which was written:

New Revised Standard
But it was in Ecbatana, the capital in the province of Media, that a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in the province of Media, a book in which this record was written.

Revised Standard Version
And in Ecbat'ana, the capital which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record.

Young's Literal Translation
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]:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
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

¹ So King Darius gave an order to search the writings of the kings before him. The writings were kept in Babylon in the same place the money was kept. ² 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: ³ During the first year that Cyrus was king, he gave an order about the Temple of God in Jerusalem. The order said: Let the Temple of God be rebuilt. It will be a place to offer sacrifices. Let its foundations be built. The Temple must be 60 cubits high and 60 cubits wide. ⁴ Its wall will be in layers that have three rows of large stones and one row of wooden timbers. The cost of building the Temple must be paid for from the king's treasury. ⁵ Also, the gold and silver things from God's Temple must be put back in their places. Nebuchadnezzar took them from the Temple in Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon. They must be put back in God's Temple. ⁶ So King Darius sent this message to his officials: To Tattenai, governor of the area west of the Euphrates River, to Shethar Bozenai, and to all the officials living in that province. I order you to stay away from Jerusalem. ⁷ Don't bother the workers. Don't try to stop the work on this Temple of God. Let the Jewish governor and the Jewish leaders rebuild it. Let them rebuild God's Temple in the same place it was in the past. ⁸ Now I give this order. You must do this for the Jewish leaders building God's Temple: The cost of the building must be fully paid from the king's treasury. The money will come from the taxes collected from the provinces in the area west of the Euphrates River. Do these things quickly, so the work will not stop. ⁹ Give them anything they need. If they need young bulls, rams, or male lambs for sacrifices to the God of heaven, give these things to them. If the priests of Jerusalem ask for wheat, salt, wine, and oil, give these things to them every day without fail. ¹⁰ Give them to the Jewish priests so that they may offer sacrifices that please the God of heaven. Give these things so that the priests may pray for me and my sons.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

at Achmetha: or, at Ecbatana, or, in a coffer, אחמתא [Strong's H712], probably from the Persian Mx, kham, "a house for a summer residence," with a prefix, א, 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

Genesis 3:6
The woman could see that the tree was beautiful and the fruit looked so good to eat. She also liked the idea that it would make her wise. So she took some of the fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave him some of the fruit, and he ate it.

Genesis 4:26
Seth also had a son. He named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .

Genesis 6:1
The number of people on earth continued to increase. When these people had daughters, the sons of God saw how beautiful they were. So they chose the women they wanted. They married them, and the women had their children. Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years." During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.

Genesis 6:6
The Lord was sorry that he had made people on the earth. It made him very sad in his heart.

Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them."

Genesis 6:8
But Noah pleased the Lord .

Genesis 6:13
So God said to Noah, "Everyone has filled the earth with anger and violence. So I will destroy all living things. I will remove them from the earth.

Genesis 6:14
Use cypress wood and build a boat for yourself. Make rooms in the boat and cover it with tar inside and out.

Genesis 6:16
Make a window for the boat about 1 cubit below the roof. Put a door in the side of the boat. Make three floors in the boat: a top deck, a middle deck, and a lower deck.

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything God commanded him.

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

“Achmetha” is the “Ecbatana,” or “Agbatana,” 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.