John Gill Commentary Ezra 6:2

"And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written for a record:" — Ezra 6:2 (ASV)

And there was found at Achmetha
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 ^F19 ; which was the name of a city in Media, where the kings of that country had their residence in the summer time ^F20 ; for it has its name from heat ^F21 ; the Persian kings dwelt at Shushan in the winter, and at Ecbatana in the summer ^F23; hence they are compared by Aelian ^F24 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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FOOTNOTES:

• F19: Antiqu. l. 11. c. 4. sect. 6.
• F20: Curtius, l. 5. c. 8. Vid. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 6.
• F21: Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 618.
• F23: Athen. Deipnosophist, l. 12. c. 1.
• F24: De Animal. l. 3. c. 13.