Return from Exile

So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had roused(A)—prepared to go up and rebuild the Lord’s house in Jerusalem. All their neighbors supported them[a](B) with silver articles, gold, goods, livestock, and valuables, in addition to all that was given as a freewill offering. King Cyrus also brought out the articles of the Lord’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and had placed in the house of his gods.(C) King Cyrus of Persia had them brought out under the supervision of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.(D) This was the inventory:

30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins,

29 silver knives, 10 30 gold bowls,

410 various[b] silver bowls, and 1,000 other articles.

11 The gold and silver articles totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought all of them when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:6 Lit strengthened their hands
  2. 1:10 Or similar

Then rose up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, (A)everyone whose spirit (B)God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem. And all who were about them (C)aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered. (D)Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord that (E)Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods. Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of (F)Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to (G)Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. And this was the number of them: (H)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.

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