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 a 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,) who [is] in Jerusalem. 4 And whoever 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, besides the free-will-offering for the house of God that [is] in Jerusalem. 5 Then arose 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, besides all [that] was willingly offered. 7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from 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 to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. 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 with [them of] the captivity that were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Ezra · Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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Cyrus
King of Persia whose spirit the LORD stirred in his first year to proclaim that God had appointed him to build a house for Him at Jerusalem and that God's people may go up.
Cited in the guide: 2 Chronicles 36:22; 2 Chronicles 36:23; Ezra 1:1
Mithredath
Cyrus’s treasurer who brought out the temple articles and counted them out to Sheshbazzar.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 1:8
Sheshbazzar
Prince of Judah to whom Cyrus gave the temple articles; he carried them to Jerusalem, was appointed governor, and is said to have laid the foundation of the house of God.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 1:8; Ezra 1:11; Ezra 5:14
Cross references (10)
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- 1 Jeremiah 29:10; 2 Chronicles 36:22–23; Jeremiah 25:12–14; Ezra 6:22; Ezra 7:27
- 2 Isaiah 45:12–13; Isaiah 44:26–45:1; Daniel 5:23; Daniel 5:19–21; Daniel 4:32
- 3 Daniel 6:26; Jeremiah 10:10; Isaiah 45:5; Acts 10:36; Joshua 1:9
- 4 1 Chronicles 29:3; Galatians 6:2; 1 Chronicles 29:9; 3 John 6–8; Ezra 2:68–70
- 5 Ezra 1:1; 2 Chronicles 36:22; Philippians 2:13; James 1:16–17; Nehemiah 2:12
- 6 2 Corinthians 9:7; Ezra 1:4; Psalm 110:3; Ezra 8:25–28; Ezra 7:15–16
- 7 2 Chronicles 36:7; Ezra 5:14; Ezra 6:5; 2 Kings 24:13; 2 Chronicles 36:10
- 8 Ezra 5:14; Haggai 1:1; Zechariah 4:6–10; Ezra 5:16; Ezra 1:11
- 9 1 Kings 7:50; 2 Chronicles 4:11; Numbers 7:13; Matthew 10:29–31; Matthew 14:8
- 11 Matthew 1:11–12; Romans 9:23; 2 Timothy 2:19–21
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