Ezra 6:1 Cross References - VIN

¹ Then king Darius gave orders, and they searched in the library of the books that were laid up in Babylon,

¹⁵ that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.

¹⁹ I decreed, and search has been made, and it is found that this city of old time has made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.

¹⁷ And now, if it seems good for the king, let it be investigated in the house of the treasury of the king in Babylonia to see if a decree was issued forth from King Cyrus to build this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send to us his desire on this matter."

¹⁶ "I was a father to the needy! I championed the cause of the stranger.

⁷ Then I said, "Look, I have come. It is written about me in the scroll of a book;

² It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

² "Take a scroll, and write on it everything that I have dictated to you about Israel, Judah, and all the other nations from the time I spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today. ³ "Maybe the nation of Judah will hear about all the disasters that I devise to bring on them, and they will turn from their wicked ways. Then I will forgive their wickedness and their sins." ⁴ Then Jeremiah called Baruch, son of Neriah. Jeremiah dictated everything that the LORD told him. Baruch wrote it all down on a scroll.

²⁰ After they put the scroll in the side room of the scribe Elishama, they went to the king in the courtyard and told him everything. ²¹ The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the office of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it to the king and to all the officials who were standing beside the king. ²² Now the king was seated in the winter house, and a fire was burning in the fireplace in front of him. ²³ As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a scribe's knife and throw them into the fire in the fireplace. He did this until the whole scroll was burned up.

²⁹ "Say about King Jehoiakim of Judah: 'This is what the LORD says: You burned this scroll, and you asked Jeremiah: "Why did you write that the king of Babylon would certainly come to destroy this land and take away people and animals?"'"

³² Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch, son of Neriah. As Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it everything that was on the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned. They added many similar messages.

⁹ As I looked, I saw a hand stretched out toward me. In it was a scroll.

¹ And he said to me, Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this roll and go, speak to the house of Israel.

¹ Then I saw in the right hand of Him who was seated on the throne a book with writing on both sides, sealed with seven seals.