(A)Also King Cyrus brought out the articles of the house of the Lord, (B)which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods; and Cyrus, king of Persia, had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to (C)Sheshbazzar, the leader of Judah. Now this was their number: thirty (D)gold dishes, a thousand silver dishes, twenty nine [a]duplicates; 10 thirty gold bowls, 410 silver bowls of a second kind, and a thousand other articles. 11 All the articles of gold and silver totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all up with the exiles who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 1:9 Heb obscure; other possible meanings are knives, censers

13 However, (A)in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus (B)issued a decree to rebuild this house of God. 14 Also (C)the gold and silver utensils of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and brought them to the temple of Babylon, King Cyrus took them from the temple of Babylon and they were given to one (D)whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor. 15 And he said to him, “Take these utensils, go and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and have the house of God rebuilt in its place.”

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19 Also the utensils which are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver in full before the God of Jerusalem.

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