^7 (A)Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.

¹³ and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord ^(A)and the treasures of the king's house, ^(B)and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, ^(C)which Solomon king of Israel had made, ^(D)as the Lord had foretold.

^2 (A)Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that ^(B)the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father^[a] had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. ³ Then they brought in ^(C)the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. ⁴ They drank wine and ^(D)praised the ^(E)gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

² And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of ^(A)the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to ^(B)the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, ^(C)and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.

^3 (A)Within ^(B)two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord's house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

¹⁶ Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the Lord: ^(A)Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ^(B)‘Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ ^(C)for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. ^17 (D)Do not listen to them; ^(E)serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city ^(F)become a desolation? ¹⁸ If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, then ^(G)let them intercede with the Lord of hosts, ^(H)that the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.

^7 (A)Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord that ^(B)Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods. ⁸ Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of ^(C)Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to ^(D)Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. ⁹ And this was the number of them: ^(E)30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers, ¹⁰ 30 bowls of gold, 410 bowls of silver, and 1,000 other vessels; ¹¹ all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.