The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezra 01
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of
Persia, that Yahweh’s† word by Jeremiah’s
mouth 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,
2 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘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.
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.
4 Whoever is left, in any place where he
lives, letthe men of his place help him with
silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering
for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’ ”
5 Then the heads of fathers’ households
of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and the
Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred
to go up, rose up to build Yahweh’s house
which is in Jerusalem.
6 All those who were around them
strengthened their hands with vessels of
silver, with gold, with goods, with animals,
and with precious things, in addition to all
that was willingly offered.
7 Also Cyrus the king brought outthe vessels of Yahweh’s house, which
Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and
had put in the house of his gods;
8 even those, Cyrus king of Persia
brought out by the hand of Mithredath
the treasurer, and counted them out to
Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.
9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver,
twenty-nine knives,
10 thirty bowls of gold, four hundred ten
silver bowls of a second kind, and one
thousand other vessels.
11 All the vessels of gold and of silver
were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to
Jerusalem.