Ezra 1

1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, so that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout his kingdom and also put it in writing, saying:

2“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem. 4And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.’”

5Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred, arose to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem. 6And all their neighbors aided them with silver and gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered.

7Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods. 8Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

9And this was their number: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, twenty-nine censers, 10thirty bowls of gold, four hundred ten bowls of silver, and a thousand other vessels. 11All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.