A decree — To search the rolls in Babylon, where search was first made; but not finding the edict there, they searched in Achmetha, or Ecbatana, and found it.
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Ezra 6:1
1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls,a where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.