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Chapter 1
- 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,
- 1:2
- 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.
- 1:3
- 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.
- 1:4
- 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.
- 1:5
- 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.
- 1:6
- 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.
- 1:7
- 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;
- 1:8
- 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.
- 1:9
- And this is the number of them:
thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and
twenty knives,
- 1:10
- Thirty basons of gold, silver
basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a
thousand.
- 1:11
- 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.
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