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1 During the first year after Cyrus, king of Persia, conquered the kingdom of Babylon, Yahweh motivated Cyrus to write a message. Yahweh did this in order to fulfill a prophecy that Jeremiah had spoken. Cyrus sent messengers throughout his empire with copies of the message and he ordered them to proclaim it as they went. This is what they proclaimed:
2 “I, King Cyrus, rule the Persian Empire, and I say this: Yahweh, the God who is in heaven, has made me ruler over the great kingdoms of this part of the world. Now he has assigned me to make sure that his people build a temple for him in the city of Jerusalem in the province of Judah. 3 All you people who belong to God may go up to Jerusalem in Judah to rebuild this temple for Yahweh. He is the God who is in Jerusalem, the God whom the people of Israel worship. And may God give you success! 4 There are other people who are living around the Israelites in the places where the Israelites have been living since their ancestors were exiled here. Those people must contribute silver and gold to the Israelites who go. They must also give to the Israelites animals and any supplies that they might need. They should also give them other gifts that they can use to help build the temple of God in Jerusalem.”
5 Then God motivated some of the priests and Levites and some of the clan leaders from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin to return to Jerusalem. Those whom God motivated got ready to return to Jerusalem and build the temple for him there. 6 Many of their neighbors helped them by giving them silver and golden things, animals, and supplies for the journey. They also gave them other valuable gifts, and they gave them money to buy things for building the temple. 7 King Cyrus also commanded his servants to bring out the valuable things that King Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers had taken from the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem and had put in the temples of their gods in Babylon. 8 Specifically, King Cyrus of Persia commanded Mithredath, his treasurer, to command his servants to bring out all of these items and to give each one of them to Sheshbazzar, the leader of the group that was going to return to Judah. 9 This is a list of the items that Cyrus donated: 30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins, 29 knives, 10 30 gold bowls, 410 secondary silver bowls, and 1,000 other utensils. 11 All together, Cyrus gave 5, 400 silver and gold items to Sheshbazzar to take with him when he and the others returned from the kingdom of Babylon to Jerusalem.