End of The Babylonian Captivity
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of theLordby the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, theLordstirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and alsoputitin writing, saying,
2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia:
# All the kingdoms of the earth theLordGod of heaven has given me. And He hascommanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem whichisin Judah.
3 Whoisamong you of all His people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem whichisin Judah, and build the house of theLordGod of Israel(HeisGod), whichisin Jerusalem.
4 And whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the house of God whichisin Jerusalem.
5 Then the heads of the fathers’housesof Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, with all whose spiritsGod had moved, arose to go up and build the house of theLordwhichisin Jerusalem.
6 And all those whowerearound them encouraged them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with precious things, besides allthatwaswillingly offered.
7 King Cyrus also brought out the articles of the house of theLord,which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the temple of his gods;
8 and Cyrus king of Persia brought them out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out toSheshbazzar the prince of Judah.
9 Thisisthe number of them: thirty gold platters, one thousand silver platters, twenty-nine knives,
10 thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silver basins of a similarkind, andone thousand other articles.
11 All the articles of gold and silverwerefive thousand four hundred. AlltheseSheshbazzar took with the captives who were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem.