| Chapter
1 |
| 1 | Now in
the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth
of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of
Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also
in writing, saying, |
| 2 |
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the
kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at
Jerusalem, which is in Judah. |
| 3
| Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let
him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God
of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. |
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4 | And whosoever remaineth in any place where he
sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and
with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God
that is in Jerusalem. |
| 5 |
Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests,
and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build
the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem. |
| 6 | And all they that were about them strengthened their
hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with
precious things, beside all that was willingly offered. |
| 7 | Also Cyrus the king brought forth the
vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of
Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods; |
| 8 | Even those did Cyrus king of Persia
bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto
Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. |
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9 | And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a
thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, |
| 10 | Thirty basins of gold, silver basins
of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand. |
| 11 | All the vessels of gold and of
silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up
with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto
Jerusalem. |
