1 Esdras 6:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ and they tore down the house and burned it, and led the people away as prisoners to Babylon. ¹⁶ But in the first year of Cyrus’ rule over the country of Babylonia, King Cyrus wrote that this house should be rebuilt. ¹⁷ King Cyrus took out the holy gold and silver equipment from the temple in Babylon, which Nebuchadnezzar had removed from the house in Jerusalem and deposited in his own temple. Cyrus handed it over to Zerubbabel and the governor Sheshbazzar