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EZRA 1:1–1:11 ©

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Koresh returns some Jews

1:1 Koresh returns some Jews

1In the first year that Koresh (Cyrus) was king of Persia (Heb. Paras), Yahweh stirred up his spirit in order to fulfil what he’d spoken through the prophet Yirmeyah (Jeremiah).[ref] So the king distributed a written proclamation throughout his kingdom, saying, 2“Koresh, king of Persia, declares this: Yahweh, the god of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms in the world, and he’s appointed me to build a residence for him in Yerushalem in Yehudah.[ref] 3Anyone among you who’s one of his followers is free to go to Yerushalem (in Yehudah) to help build a temple there for Israel’s God Yahweh—the god of Yerushalem. May God go with you. 4Those who live near these people but who’re not going themselves, should donate gold and silver, and goods and livestock, plus cash as a voluntary offering for God’s temple in Yerushalem.

5Then some of the leaders of Benyamin and Yehudah, and some priests and Levites—all of whom had had their spirits stirred up by God—left to go and build Yahweh’s residence in Yerushalem. 6Their neighbours had helped them by donating gold and silver utensils, goods and livestock, and expensive gifts, as well as the voluntary offerings of cash.

7Then King Koresh brought out the equipment from Yahweh’s temple that Nebuchadnezzar had brought all the way from Yerushalem and had put in the house of his gods. 8He put the treasurer Mitedat in charge of bringing them out and Sheshbatstsar, the ruler of Yehudah, in charge of accepting them and listing them. 9There were: thirty gold basins, one thousand silver basins, twenty-nine knives, 10thirty gold bowls, 410 silver bowls, and a thousand other utensils, 11coming to a total of 5,400 gold and silver utensils. Sheshbatstsar took all of that with the group of exiles going from Babylon to Yerushalem.


1:1: Jer 25:11; 29:10.

1:2: Isa 44:28.

EZRA 1:1–1:11 ©

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