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Ezra 6:2

Kemudian di Ahmeta, benteng yang di propinsi Media, didapati sebuah gulungan, yang isinya sebagai berikut: "Piagam:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Achmetha;   Church and State;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Medes;   Palace;   Rulers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Palaces;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Books;   Kings;   Medo-Persian Kingdom;   Palaces;   Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Achmetha;   Haggai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aram;   Ezra;   Media;   Persia;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Achmetha;   Cyrus;   Darius;   Ecbatana;   Roll;   Temple, the Second;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Achmetha;   Ecbatana;   Ezra, the Book of;   Medes;   Persia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Achmetha;   Decree;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Achmetha;   Darius;   Medes, Media;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Ono;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Achmetha ;   Dari'us;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Achmetha;   Assyria;   Medes;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ecbat'ana;   Medes, Me'dia;   Per'sia;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Book;   Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Achmetha;   Ecbatana;   Medes;   Record;   Roll (Scroll);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Achmetha;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cyrus;   Media;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kemudian di Ahmeta, benteng yang di propinsi Media, didapati sebuah gulungan, yang isinya sebagai berikut: "Piagam:
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka di Akhmeta, di dalam kota yang di tanah Medi, didapatinya akan suatu gulungan, maka padanya adalah tersurat ini akan suatu peringatan:

Contextual Overview

1 Then comaunded king Darius: & they made searche in the librarie, eue in the place where they layed vp the treasure at Babylon: 2 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. 3 In the first yere of king Cyrus, gaue the same king Cyrus commaundement concerning the house of God at Hierusalem, that the same house should be builded in the place where they offer the sacrifices, & to ioyne the walles together of threescore cubites heyght, and threescore cubites breadth. 4 Three rowes of rough stones, and one rowe of newe timber: and the expences shalbe geuen of the kinges house. 5 And let the golde and siluer vessels of the house of God, which Nabuchodonosor toke out of the temple at Hierusalem and brought vnto Babylon, be restored, and brought againe vnto the temple at Hierusalem to their place in the house of God. 6 Now therefore thou Thathanai captaine beyond the water, & Stharbuzanai, and your counsailers, and Aphersechei which are beyond the water, get ye away from them. 7 Let the worke of the house of this God alone, that the captaine of the Iewes and their elders may builde the house of God in his place. 8 I haue commaunded what ye shall do to the elders of Iuda for the building of the house of God, that of the kinges goodes, euen of the tribute beyond the water, foorthwith expences be geuen vnto the men, that they be not hindred. 9 And if they haue neede of calues, rammes, and lambes for the burnt offering of the God of heauen, wheate, salte, wine, and oyle, after the custome of the priestes at Hierusalem, let the same be geuen them dayly without any delay: 10 That they may haue to offer sweete sauours vnto the God of heauen, & pray for the kinges lyfe, and for his children.

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
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.
Genesis 4:26
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.
Genesis 6:1
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:
Genesis 6:2
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.
Genesis 6:3
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.
Genesis 6:4
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.
Genesis 6:6
And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth, & he was touched with sorowe in his heart.
Genesis 6:7
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.
Genesis 6:8
But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.
Genesis 6:12
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

“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.


 
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