The Captivity of Jerusalem

13 (A)And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and he (B)cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, (C)as the Lord had said.

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13 As the Lord had declared,(A) Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures(B) from the temple of the Lord and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles(C) that Solomon(D) king of Israel had made for the temple of the Lord.

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15 The firepans and the basins, the things of solid gold and solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.

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15 The commander of the imperial guard took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—all that were made of pure gold or silver.(A)

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(A)King Cyrus also brought out the articles of the house of the Lord, (B)which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the [a]temple of his gods; and Cyrus king of Persia brought them out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to (C)Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. This is the number of them: thirty gold platters, one thousand silver platters, twenty-nine knives, 10 thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silver basins of a similar kind, and one thousand other articles. 11 All the articles of gold and silver were five thousand four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar took with the captives who were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 1:7 Lit. house

Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles belonging to the temple of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his god.[a](A) Cyrus king of Persia had them brought by Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar(B) the prince of Judah.

This was the inventory:

gold dishes30
silver dishes1,000
silver pans[b]29
10 gold bowls30
matching silver bowls410
other articles1,000

11 In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and of silver. Sheshbazzar brought all these along with the exiles when they came up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 1:7 Or gods
  2. Ezra 1:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

19 The basins, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the cups, whatever was solid gold and whatever was solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.

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19 The commander of the imperial guard took away the basins, censers,(A) sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands,(B) dishes(C) and bowls used for drink offerings(D)—all that were made of pure gold or silver.(E)

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And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with (A)some of the articles of [a]the house of God, which he carried (B)into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; (C)and he brought the articles into the treasure house of his god.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 1:2 The temple

And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried(A) off to the temple of his god in Babylonia[a] and put in the treasure house of his god.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 1:2 Hebrew Shinar