Ezra Chapter 1 Back Next{1:1} Now in the first year of
Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of
Yahweh by the mouth of
Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
{1:2} "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, 'Yahweh, the
God of
heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the
earth; and he has commanded me to build him a
house in
Jerusalem, which is in
Judah.
{1:3} Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of
Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
{1:4} Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with
gold, with goods, and with animals, besides the
freewill offering for God's house which is in Jerusalem.'"
{1:5} Then the heads of
fathers' households of Judah and
Benjamin, and the priests, and the
Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.
{1:6} All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
{1:7} Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
{1:8} even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of
Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
{1:9} This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
{1:10} thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.
{1:11} All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up, when the
captives were brought up from
Babylon to Jerusalem.
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