Verse 1

Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was made in the archives where treasures were stored in Babylon.

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  • Ezra 5:17 : 17 And now, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the royal archives in Babylon to determine if a decree was indeed issued by King Cyrus to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision concerning this matter.
  • Ezra 4:15 : 15 So let a search be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, harmful to kings and provinces, and that rebellion has been stirred up in it since ancient times. That is why this city was destroyed.
  • Ezra 4:19 : 19 I gave the order, and a search was made. It was found that this city has a long history of revolting against kings and engaging in rebellion and sedition.
  • Job 29:16 : 16 I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of one I did not know.
  • Ps 40:7 : 7 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared my ears to listen; burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
  • Prov 25:2 : 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search it out.
  • Jer 36:2-4 : 2 Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the days of Josiah until today. 3 Perhaps the house of Judah will hear about all the disaster I intend to bring upon them, so that each one may turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. 4 So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on the scroll from Jeremiah’s dictation all the words that the LORD had spoken to him.
  • Jer 36:20-23 : 20 After they put the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king in the courtyard and reported all these words to him. 21 The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. Jehudi brought it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary and read it aloud to the king and all the officials standing by him. 22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, and a firepot was burning in front of him. 23 As Jehudi read three or four columns of the scroll, the king would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the fire in the firepot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire.
  • Jer 36:29 : 29 And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘This is what the LORD says: You burned this scroll, saying, “Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon will surely come and destroy this land and leave it without people or animals?”’
  • Jer 36:32 : 32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch son of Neriah, the scribe, who wrote on it at Jeremiah’s dictation all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many more similar words were added to them.
  • Ezek 2:9 : 9 I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me, and in it was a scroll.
  • Ezek 3:1 : 1 He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel."
  • Rev 5:1 : 1 Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides, sealed with seven seals.