Chapter 1
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia , that the LORD ’s word by Jeremiah ’s mouth might be accomplished , the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia , so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom , and put it also in writing , saying ,
2 " Cyrus king of Persia says , ‘ The LORD , the God " (Elohim). of heaven , has given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem , which is in Judah .
3 Whoever there is amongst you of all his people , may his God be with him , and let him go up to Jerusalem , which is in Judah , and build the house of the LORD , the God of Israel ( he is God ), which is in Jerusalem .
4 Whoever is left , in any place where he lives , let the men of his place help him with silver , with gold , with goods , and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem .’"
5 Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin , the priests and the Levites , all whose spirit God had stirred to go up , rose up to build the LORD ’s house which is in Jerusalem .
6 All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver , with gold , with goods , with animals, and with precious things , in addition to all that was willingly offered .
7 Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of the LORD ’s house , which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem , and had put in the house of his gods;
8 even those , Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer , and counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah .
9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold , one thousand platters of silver , twenty-nine knives ,
10 thirty bowls of gold , four hundred and ten silver bowls of a second kind, and one thousand other vessels .
11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred . Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem .