And in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, for the completing of the word of the LORD from the mouth of Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia; and he passed a voice through all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying:
“Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD, the God of the heavens, has given me; and he has appointed me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Whoever 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 the LORD, the God of Israel — he is the God who is in Jerusalem.
And whoever remains, from all the places where he sojourns, let the men of his place lift him up with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with cattle, along with the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”
Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin rose up, and the priests and the Levites — everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem.
And all those around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with cattle, and with precious things, besides all that was freely offered.
Cyrus Restores the Holy Vessels
And King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem and had put in the house of his gods.
And 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.
And this is their number: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, twenty-nine knives,
thirty bowls of gold, four hundred and ten bowls of silver of a second sort, a thousand other vessels.
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. All of them Sheshbazzar brought up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
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