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Cyrus' Decree and the Return of Temple Vessels

Ezra 1:1-11

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Chapter 1
1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD from the mouth of Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying: 2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of the heavens has given to me, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Who among you, from all his people—his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and let him build the house of the LORD God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem. 4 And everyone remaining in all the places where he has sojourned there, the men of his place shall help him with silver and with gold and with goods and with livestock, along with the freewill offering, to the house of God that is in Jerusalem. 5 And the heads of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites rose up, with all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem. 6 All those around them strengthened their hands with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with livestock, and with precious things, besides all that was given as a freewill offering. 7 And King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out from Jerusalem and put them in the house of his gods. 8 Cyrus king of Persia brought them out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. 9 Now this was their number: thirty gold basins, one thousand silver basins, and twenty-nine other vessels. 10 Thirty gold bowls, four hundred and ten silver bowls, other vessels a thousand. 11 All the vessels of gold and silver—five thousand four hundred—Sheshbazzar brought up with the ascent of the exile from Babylon to Jerusalem.