1. In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy might be accomplished,
2. the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, and also by writing,
3. saying, Thus says Cyrus king of the Persians; The Lord of Israel, the Most High Lord, has made me king of the whole world,
4. and commanded me to build him a house at Jerusalem that is in Judaea.
5. 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 Judaea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: he is the Lord that dwells in Jerusalem.
6. Of such therefore as dwell in various places, let them that are in his own place help each one with gold, and with silver,
7. with gifts, with horses also and cattle, beside the other things which have been added by vow for the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.
8. Then the chief of the families of Judah and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up; the priests also, and the Levites, and all they whose spirit the Lord had stirred to go up, to build the house for the Lord which is in Jerusalem.
9. And they that lived round about them helped them in all things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many gifts that were vowed of a great number whose minds were stirred up thereto.
10. King Cyrus also brought forth the holy vessels of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem, and had set up in his temple of idols.
11. Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he delivered them to Mithradates his treasurer,
12. and by him they were delivered to Sanabassar the governor of Judaea.
13. And this was the number of them: A thousand golden cups, a thousand cups of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold thirty, and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
14. So all the vessels of gold and of silver were brought up, even five thousand four hundred threescore and nine,
15. and were carried back by Sanabassar, together with them of the captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem.