John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 6:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And there was found at Achmetha, etc.] Which Jarchi and Aben Ezra take to be the name of a vessel in which letters and writings were put for safety; but it was no doubt the name of a place; the Vulgate Latin version has it Ecbatana; and so Josephus f53; which was the name of a city in Media, where the kings of that country had their residence in the summer time f54; for it has its name from heat f55; the Persian kings dwelt at Shushan in the winter, and at Ecbatana in the summer f56; hence they are compared by Aelian f57 to cranes, birds of passage, because of their going to and from the above places: in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, here was found a roll; which was the decree of Cyrus, which perhaps he took with him when he went thither: and therein was a record thus written; as follows.

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