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5 Then the prophet Haggai and Iddo’s son Zecharyah prophesied to the Jews in Yerushalem and across Yehudah in the name of Israel’s God who they served.[ref] 2 Then Shealtiel’s son Zerubabel and Yotsadak’s son Yeshua took action and began to rebuild God’s temple in Yerushalem, and the prophets who served God were there with them, supporting them.[ref]
3 At that time, Tattenai, the governor of the province west of the Euphrates, and Shetar-Bozenai, and their companions came to them and demanded, “Who gave you all permission to rebuild this temple?” 4 They also asked the Jews to tell them the names of the men who were working on the building. 5 However, God was watching over the Jewish leaders, and they weren’t actually stopped. A report was sent to King Dareyavesh, then they waited for a response. 6 Tattenai, the governor of the province west of the river, and Shetar-Bozenai and his companions, the provincial officials, sent the letter to King Dareyavesh (Darius)— 7 this is what was written in their report:
“To King Dareyavesh. All peace. 8 Let it be known to the king that we went to the province of Yehudah, to the temple of the great God, and it is being built with large stones, and timber is being placed in the walls. This work is being done to a high standard and they’re making good progress.
9 “Then we asked those elders, ‘Who gave you all permission to rebuild this temple?’ 10 We also asked them their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders to inform you.
11 “This is the answer they gave us, ‘We are servants of the God of the heavens and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was constructed and finished many years ago by a famous Israeli king. 12 However, because our ancestors made the God of the heavens angry, he let Babylonian King Nevukadnetstsar (Nebuchadnezzar, the Chaldean) defeat them, and he destroyed that temple and caused the people to be exiled to Babylon.[ref] 13 But in the first year of the reign of Babylonian King Koresh (Cyrus), he made a decree to rebuild this house of God.[ref] 14 What’s more, the gold and silver containers that Nevukadnetstsar had taken out from that temple that was in Yerushalem and had brought to the temple in Babylon, King Koresh took them out from the temple in Babylon and they were handed over to the man named Sheshbatstsar who he’d appointed as governor over Yehudah. 15 Koresh had told him to take those containers and put them back in the temple in Yerushalem, and to ensure that the temple got rebuilt in the same place where it had been before. 16 So Sheshbatstsar came here and laid the foundation of God’s house in Yerushalem, and since then, it’s been being rebuilt but isn’t finished yet.’
17 So now, if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the records in the king’s treasure house there in Babylon, if it’s correct that a decree was set by King Koresh to rebuild this house of God in Yerushalem. Then let the king send his decision on this matter back to us.”
Hag 1:1:
1 In Dareyavesh’s (Darius’s) second year as king of Persia, on the 1st of the sixth month, the prophet Haggai brought Yahweh’s message to the governor of Yehudah, Zerubbabel (Shealtiel’s son), and to the high priest, Yehoshua (Yehozadak’s son), telling them that[ref]
Zech 1:1:
1 In the eighth month of the second year of the reign of Persian King Dareyavesh (Darius), Yahweh spoke through the prophet Zekaryah (Zechariah, son of Iddo’s son Berekyah) saying,[ref]
Hag 1:12:
12 Then Shealtiyel’s son Zerubavel and Yehotsadak’s son Yehoshua, the high priest, and all the rest of the people listened to the voice of their God Yahweh via the words of the prophet Haggai, because Yahweh their God had sent him and the people respected Yahweh.
Zech 4:6-9:
6 So he told me, “This is Yahweh’s message to Zerubavel: army commander Yahweh says it won’t be my strength or my power, but with my spirit.[ref] 7 What are you, big mountain? Before Zerubavel you will become a plain. Then he will bring out the top stone to shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it.’ ”
8 Then Yahweh’s message came to me, saying, 9 “Zerubavel’s hands have laid the foundation of this temple and his hands will bring it to completion.” Then you will have confirmation that army commander Yahweh has sent me to you.
2Ki 25:8-12:
8 On the seventh day of the fifth month of Babylonian King Nevukadnetstsar’s nineteenth year as king, his servant Nevuzaradan, who was his chief bodyguard, went to Yerushalem. 9 He set fire to Yahweh’s temple and the palace, and all of Yerushalem’s houses, so no important building remained. 10 Then the army under the command of Nevuzaradan tore down the walls surrounding Yerushalem. 11 He exiled all the rest of the people from the city, all the surrendered soldiers, and the rest of the population, 12 but he let some of the poorest people remain on the land to look after the vineyards and as farmers.
2Ch 36:17-20:
Jer 52:12-15:
Ezr 1:2-11:
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] 3 Anyone 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. 4 Those 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.
5 Then 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. 6 Their neighbours had helped them by donating gold and silver utensils, goods and livestock, and expensive gifts, as well as the voluntary offerings of cash.
7 Then King Koresh brought out the equipment from Yahweh’s temple that Nevukadnetstsar (Nebuchadnezzar) had brought all the way from Yerushalem and had put in the house of his gods. 8 He put the treasurer Mitedat in charge of bringing them out and Sheshbatstsar, the ruler of Yehudah, in charge of accepting them and listing them. 9 There were: thirty gold basins, one thousand silver basins, twenty-nine knives, 10 thirty gold bowls, 410 silver bowls, and a thousand other utensils, 11 coming 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.