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They sent the proceeds of this collection to Jerusalem, to the high priest Jehoiakim, son of Hilkiah, son of Shallum, and to the priests and all the people who were with him in Jerusalem. At the same time, on the tenth day of the month Sivan,[a] Baruch took the vessels of the house of the Lord that had been stolen from the temple and returned them to the land of Judah. These were the silver vessels that Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, had ordered to be made, after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported Jeconiah from Jerusalem together with the princes, artisans, nobles, and the people, and brought them to Babylon as captives.

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Footnotes

  1. Baruch 1:8 Sivan: the date corresponds to May-June.