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Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased ° unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

4:24 Darius. Darius Hystapses, known to history as Darius the Great. It was he who left the famous Behistun Inscription chronicling his military conquests in three languages (Persian, Elamite and Babylonian), on a great vertical escarpment northwest of Babylon. These writings enabled Sir Henry Rawlinson to decipher the ancient Babylonian language.


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