Ezra 1:5-11

The Voice

⁵ The tribal leaders of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and Levites, and everyone motivated in his or her spirit by the True God prepared to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Eternal’s temple. ⁶ All their neighbors gave them silver, gold, goods, cattle, and valuable things for the journey, just as Cyrus had requested, and sent freewill offerings. ^7-8 Even King Cyrus commanded his treasurer, Mithredath, to return the vessels from the Eternal’s temple (which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and stored in his gods’ temple) to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. ⁹ The vessels included 30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins, 29 extra dishes, ¹⁰ 30 gold bowls, 410 silver bowls of a different pattern, and 1,000 other articles. ¹¹ Sheshbazzar and the exiles carried a total of 5,400 gold and silver vessels from Babylon to Jerusalem.