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In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord might be accomplished,
that he had promised by the mouth of Jeremy;
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The Lord raised up the spirit of Cyrus the king of the Persians, and he made proclamation
through all his kingdom, and also by writing,
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Saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians; The Lord of Israel, the most high Lord, hath
made me king of the whole world,
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And commanded me to build him an house at Jerusalem in Jewry.
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If therefore there be any of you that are of his people, let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him,
and let him go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: for he is
the Lord that dwelleth in Jerusalem.
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Whosoever then dwell in the places about, let them help him, those, I say, that are his
neighbours, with gold, and with silver,
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With gifts, with horses, and with cattle, and other things, which have been set forth by vow,
for the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem.
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Then the chief of the families of Judea and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up; the priests also,
and the Levites, and all they whose mind the Lord had moved to go up, and to build an house for
the Lord at Jerusalem,
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And they that dwelt round about them, and helped them in all things with silver and gold, with
horses and cattle, and with very many free gifts of a great number whose minds were stirred up
thereto.
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King Cyrus also brought forth the holy vessels, which Nabuchodonosor had carried away
from Jerusalem, and had set up in his temple of idols.
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Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he delivered them to Mithridates
his treasurer:
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And by him they were delivered to Sanabassar the governor of Judea.
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And this was the number of them; A thousand golden cups, and a thousand of silver, censers
of silver twenty nine, vials of gold thirty, and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and a
thousand other vessels.
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So all the vessels of gold and of silver, which were carried away, were five thousand four
hundred threescore and nine.
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These were brought back by Sanabassar, together with them of the captivity, from Babylon
to Jerusalem.
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But in the time of Artexerxes king of the Persians Belemus, and Mithridates, and Tabellius,
and Rathumus, and Beeltethmus, and Semellius the secretary, with others that were in commission
with them, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote unto him against them that dwelt in Judea
and Jerusalem these letters following;
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To king Artexerxes our lord, Thy servants, Rathumus the storywriter, and Semellius the scribe,
and the rest of their council, and the judges that are in Celosyria and Phenice.
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