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Ezra 6:2

And there was found at Ecbatana, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a scroll, and in it was a record thus written:
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Ecbatana. Chaldean achmetha, signifies "a jug, or chest. "(Calmet) "They found in the chest of the palace, under the inscription of Media. "(Munster) (Pagnin) "And a roll was found (some add, in Amatha) in the city, in a chest, (or tower; Barei) and this memorial was written in it. "(Septuagint) Protestants style the place, "Achmetha. "(Haydock) Arabic, "Athana. "Syriac, "Ahmathane. "The memoirs of Cyrus had probably been conveyed to Ecbatana, which was built by Dejoces, the first king of the Medes, and greatly enlarged by his successor, Phraortes. (Calmet) Province. Media now only formed a province of the empire. (Tirinus)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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