1. King Darius ordered someone to go through the old records kept in Babylonia.
2. Finally, a scroll was found in Ecbatana, the capital of Media Province, and it said:This official record will show
3. that in the first year Cyrus was king, he gave orders to rebuild God's temple in Jerusalem, so that sacrifices and offerings could be presented there. It is to be built twenty-seven metres high and twenty-seven metres wide,
4. with one row of wooden beams for each three rows of large stones. The royal treasury will pay for everything.