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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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/ezra/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Cyrus Helps the Exiles to Return</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> spoken by Jeremiah, the <span class="name">Lord</span> moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:</p> <p class="emb"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:</p><p class="reg">“ ‘The <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And in any locality where survivors may now be living, the people are to provide them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the <span class="name">Lord</span> in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>All their neighbors assisted them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuable gifts, in addition to all the freewill offerings.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles belonging to the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his god. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or gods">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Cyrus king of Persia had them brought by Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>This was the inventory:</p><div align="center"><table class="bibletable"><tr><td class="cellitem1">gold dishes</td><td class="cellitem3">30</td></tr><tr><td class="cellitem1">silver dishes</td><td class="cellitem3">1,000</td></tr><tr><td class="cellitem1">silver pans <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.">b</a></sup></span> </td><td class="cellitem3">29</td></tr> <tr><td class="cellitem1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>gold bowls</td><td class="cellitem3">30</td></tr><tr><td class="cellitem1">matching silver bowls</td><td class="cellitem3">410</td></tr><tr><td class="cellitem1">other articles</td><td class="cellitem3">1,000</td></tr></table></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and of silver. Sheshbazzar brought all these along with the exiles when they came up from Babylon to Jerusalem.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>gods</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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