Ezra 1:5-11
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5 In response, the heads of the families[a] of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and descendants of Levi, and all those who had been prompted[b] by God, prepared to travel to rebuild the Temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem. 6 So all of their neighbors equipped the travelers[c] with silver, gold, equipment, pack animals, and valuable goods, in addition to voluntary offerings.
Temple Instruments Returned
7 King Cyrus also brought out from storage[d] the service instruments from the Temple of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his gods.[e] 8 Cyrus, king of Persia, had them brought out to Mithredath the Treasurer, had them inventoried, and had them placed in care of[f] Sheshbazzar,[g] governor of Judah. 9 Here is a partial inventory:[h]
Gold dishes: 30
Silver dishes: 1,000
Sacrificial knives: 29
10 Gold bowls: 30
Silver bowls of another kind:[i] 410
Miscellaneous instruments: 1,000
11 The complete inventory of gold and silver vessels totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar[j] brought them all to Jerusalem, along with the exiles from Babylon.
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- Ezra 1:5 Lit. fathers
- Ezra 1:5 Lit. all whose spirit had been stirred up
- Ezra 1:6 Lit. strengthened their hands
- Ezra 1:7 The Heb. lacks from storage
- Ezra 1:7 LXX his god
- Ezra 1:8 Lit. Treasurer, and numbered them to
- Ezra 1:8 I.e. Zerubbabel; Sheshbazzar is the Persian equivalent (cf. 2:2)
- Ezra 1:9 Lit. This was their number
- Ezra 1:10 Lit. of a second
- Ezra 1:11 I.e. Zerubbabel; Sheshbazzar is the Persian equivalent (cf. 2:2)
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