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Sagradas Escrituras

Esdras 6:1

Entonces el rey Darío dio mandamiento, y buscaron en la casa de los libros, donde guardaban los tesoros allí en Babilonia.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church and State;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Rulers;   Treasure-Houses;   Thompson Chain Reference - Darius;   Decrees of Kings;   King's Decrees;   Nation, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Books;   Kings;   Medo-Persian Kingdom;   Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dedication;   Haggai;   Tile;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aram;   Ezra;   Media;   Persia;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Roll;   Temple, the Second;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Persia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Decree;   House of the Rolls;   Library;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Archives;   Darius;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Zerubbabel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dari'us;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Per'sia;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Archives;   Libraries;   Roll (Scroll);   Treasure;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Achmetha;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Entonces el rey Darío proclamó un decreto, y buscaron en los archivos donde se guardaban los tesoros allí en Babilonia.
La Biblia Reina-Valera
ENTONCES el rey Dar�o di� mandamiento, y buscaron en la casa de los libros, donde guardaban los tesoros all� en Babilonia.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Entonces el rey Dar�o dio mandamiento, y buscaron en la casa de los libros, donde guardaban los tesoros all� en Babilonia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and search: Ezra 4:15, Ezra 4:19, Ezra 5:17, Job 29:16, Proverbs 25:2

rolls: Chal, books, Psalms 40:7, Jeremiah 36:2-4, Jeremiah 36:20-23, Jeremiah 36:29, Jeremiah 36:32, Ezekiel 2:9, Ezekiel 3:1, Revelation 5:1

laid up: Chal, made to descend

Reciprocal: Ezra 4:5 - Darius Ezra 4:24 - Darius Ezra 7:13 - I make Ezra 9:9 - in the sight Isaiah 13:3 - them that Daniel 9:25 - from

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Darius the king made a decree,.... To make inquiry after the edict of Cyrus, to search the public records for it:

and search was made in the house of the rolls; or "books" r, in a public library or museum:

where the treasures were laid up in Babylon; where things of worth and value were reposited; not only gold, silver, jewels, and precious stones, and things rare and curious, but all sorts of writings relating to the monarchy, and the dominions belonging to it; but it seems it could not be found here, and therefore the king ordered search to be made elsewhere.

r בבית ספריא, εν ταις βιβλιοθηκαις, Sept. "in bibliotheca", V. L. "in bibliotheca librorum", Tigurine version; "in domo librorum", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A “house of the rolls” was discovered at Koyunjik, the ancient Nineveh, in 1850 - a set of chambers, i. e., in the palace devoted exclusively to the storing of public documents. These were in baked clay, and covered the floor to the depth of more than a foot. Such a “house” was probably that at Babylon.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VI

Darius orders search to be made for the edict of Cyrus, 1.

It is found at Achmetha, 2.

A transcript of this edict, 3-5.

Darius confirms it, 6-12.

Tatnai encourages the Jews to proceed; and they finish the

temple in the sixth year of Darius, 13-15.

They dedicate the temple, 16-18;

keep the Passover, 19-21,

and the feast of unleavened bread, 22.

NOTES ON CHAP. VI

Verse Ezra 6:1. In the house of the rolls — בית ספריא beith siphraiya, the house of the books, the king's library. This is the first time we hear of a library.


 
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