15 that there may be an investigation of the book of records+ of your ancestors. Then you will find in the book of records and learn that that city is a city rebellious and causing loss to kings and jurisdictional districts, and within it there were movers of revolt from the days of old. For this reason that city has been laid waste.+

17 “And now if to the king it seems good, let there be an investigation+ in the king’s house of treasures that is there in Babylon, whether it is so that from Cyrus the king an order+ was put through to rebuild that house of God in Jerusalem; and the decision of the king concerning this let him send to us.”

6 It was then that Da·riʹus the king put an order through, and they made an investigation in the house of the records+ of the treasures deposited there in Babylon.

2 The glory of God is the keeping of a matter secret,+ and the glory of kings is the searching through a matter.+