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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezra 1 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezra/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezra/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > Ezra 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/36.htm" title="2 Chronicles 36">◄</a> Ezra 1 <a href="../ezra/2.htm" title="Ezra 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/ezra/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Proclamation of Cyrus</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now in the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>first year of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Cyrus king of Persia [that is, the first year he ruled Babylon], in order to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah [the prophet], the LORD stirred up (put in motion) the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also <i>put it</i> in writing, saying: <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and He has appointed me to build Him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him! Let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is God who is in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In any place where a survivor (Jewish exile) may live, let the men (Gentiles) of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with freewill offerings for the house of God in Jerusalem.’” <p class="hdg">Holy Articles Restored</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the heads of the fathers’ <i>households</i> of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites, all those whose spirits God had stirred up, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>arose to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>All those who were around them encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with cattle, and with valuable things, in addition to all that was given as a freewill offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Also King Cyrus brought out the articles of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem [when he captured that city] and had put in the house of his gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Cyrus, king of Persia, had Mithredath the treasurer bring them out, and he counted them out to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>Sheshbazzar, the governor (leader) of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they counted: 30 dishes (basins) of gold, 1,000 dishes of silver, 29 duplicates; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>30 [small] gold bowls, 410 [small] silver bowls of a second <i>kind,</i> and 1,000 other articles. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>All the articles of gold and of silver <i>totaled</i> 5,400. All these Sheshbazzar [the governor] brought up with the exiles who went from Babylon up to Jerusalem.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Cyrus the Great captured Babylon in Oct 539 B.C. This was about seventy years after the first Hebrew captives were taken to Babylon.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Cyrus the Great established the Persian Empire and ruled from 559-530 B.C. His kingdom extended from Turkey in the west to the Indus River in the east, covering most of Southwest Asia and much of Central Asia. He was a great soldier as well as a wise and benevolent king, whose respect for religious freedom led to the return of the Hebrew captives to Jerusalem. Ancient historians report that the tomb assumed to be his was visited by Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) when he conquered Persepolis in 330 B.C. The tomb still exists among the ruins of Pasargadae in modern Iran.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> It is remarkable that Cyrus actually used God’s special name, the tetragrammaton <i>YHWH</i> (traditionally rendered “LORD”). Certainly Cyrus recognized the true God, but he probably considered Him as one of a number of existing gods, as was typical for a polytheist. For Cyrus <i>God of heaven</i> probably meant just that, along with <i>God of Israel</i> and the <i>God who is in Jerusalem</i> (v 3).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> The Hebrew verb “to stand” or “arise” is often an instruction to get ready to fulfill a command, somewhat similar to the military command “attention.”<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> There is occasionally a debate over the identities of Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel. Sheshbazzar was an older Jewish official who was appointed by Cyrus and served in Judah (5:24). Zerubbabel was a younger man who was recognized as a political leader among the Jews. 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