Ezra

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, when the word of GOD spoken by Jeremiah was fulfilled,athe word of GOD spoken by Jeremiah was fulfilled Cf. Jer. 29.10. GOD roused the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia to issue a proclamation throughout his realm by word of mouth and in writing as follows:

“Thus said King Cyrus of Persia: The ETERNAL God of Heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has charged me with building a house [of God] in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

May your God be with those of you among this people who wish to go up to Jerusalem that is in Judah and build the House of the ETERNAL God of Israel, the God that is in Jerusalem;

and all who stay behind, wherever that may be, let the people of that place render assistance with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, besides the freewill offering to the House of God that is in Jerusalem.”

So the heads of the clans of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites, all whose spirit had been roused by God, got ready to go up to build the House of GOD that is in Jerusalem.

All their neighbors supported them with silver vessels, with gold, with goods, with livestock, and with precious objects, besides what had been given as a freewill offering.

King Cyrus released the vessels of GOD’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken away from Jerusalem and had put in the house of his god.

These King Cyrus of Persia released through the office of Mithredath the treasurer, who gave an inventory of them to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

This is the inventory: 30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins, 29 knives,

30 gold bowls, 410 silver double bowls,bdouble bowls Meaning of Heb. uncertain. 1,000 other vessels;

in all, 5,400 gold and silver vessels. Sheshbazzar brought all these back when the exiles came back from Babylon to Jerusalem.