¹Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia , that the LORD ’s word by Jeremiah ’s mouth might be accomplished , the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia , so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom , and put it also in writing , saying ,[#1:1 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “”, usually pronounced Yahweh).]

⁵Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin , the priests and the Levites , all whose spirit God had stirred to go up , rose up to build the LORD ’s house which is in Jerusalem .

⁶All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver , with gold , with goods , with animals, and with precious things , in addition to all that was willingly offered .

⁷Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of the LORD ’s house , which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem , and had put in the house of his gods;

⁸even those , Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer , and counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah .

⁹This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold , one thousand platters of silver , twenty-nine knives ,

¹⁰thirty bowls of gold , four hundred and ten silver bowls of a second kind, and one thousand other vessels .

¹¹All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred . Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem .