That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
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Gill's Exposition
We certify the king, that if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up,.... As it formerly was, and now attempted, as they suggest:
by this means thou shalt have no portion on this…
Barnes' Notes
The book of the records - Compare Est 2:23; Est 6:1; Est 10:2. The existence of such a “book” at the Persian court is attested also by Ctesias. Of thy fathers - i. e., thy predecessors ripen the…
Adam Clarke
The book of the records of thy fathers - That is, the records of the Chaldeans, to whom the Persians succeeded.
Cyrus stedfastly adhered to the Jews' interest, and supported his own grant. It was to no purpose to offer any thing to him in prejudice of it. What he did was from a good principle, and in the fear…
Cambridge Bible
that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers Literally, that one may search, i.e. the officials in whose keeping the records were. Perhaps the plural should be read, as in Ezr…
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