6 So King Dareyavesh (Darius) ordered that a search be conducted in all the archives where treasures had been deposited there in Babylon, 2 and one scroll was found in the fortress at Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this record had been made:

3 “In year one of Koresh the king, he made a decree about the house of God in Yerushalem:

‘Let the house be built in the same place where sacrifices were made. Establish its foundations and build it 27m high and 27m wide 4 with three layers of large stones and a layer of new timber. That should all be paid for from the royal treasury. 5 Also, the gold and silver containers from the house of God that Nevukadnetstsar had taken out from the Yerushalem temple and had brought to Babylon, must be returned to their places in the temple in Yerushalem. So you must put them in the house of God.’ ”