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Kooreksen, Persian kuninkaan, ensimmäisenä hallitusvuotena herätti Herra, että täyttyisi Herran sana, jonka hän oli puhunut Jeremian suun kautta, Kooreksen, Persian kuninkaan, hengen, niin että tämä koko valtakunnassansa kuulutti ja myös käskykirjassa julistutti näin:

"Näin sanoo Koores, Persian kuningas: Kaikki maan valtakunnat on Herra, taivaan Jumala, antanut minulle, ja hän on käskenyt minun rakentaa itsellensä temppelin Jerusalemiin, joka on Juudassa.

Kuka vain teidän joukossanne on hänen kansaansa, sen kanssa olkoon hänen Jumalansa, ja hän menköön Jerusalemiin, joka on Juudassa, rakentamaan Herran, Israelin Jumalan, temppeliä. Hän on se Jumala, joka asuu Jerusalemissa.

Kuka vain on jäljellä, se saakoon, missä asuukin muukalaisena, paikkakuntansa miehiltä kannatukseksi hopeata ja kultaa, tavaraa ja karjaa ynnä vapaaehtoisia lahjoja Jumalan temppelin rakentamiseksi Jerusalemiin."

Silloin nousivat Juudan ja Benjaminin perhekunta-päämiehet sekä papit ja leeviläiset, kaikki, joiden hengen Jumala herätti menemään ja rakentamaan Herran temppeliä Jerusalemiin.

Ja kaikki, jotka asuivat heidän ympärillään, avustivat heitä hopeakaluilla, kullalla, tavaralla, karjalla ja kalleuksilla kaiken sen lisäksi, mitä annettiin vapaaehtoisina lahjoina.

Ja kuningas Koores tuotatti esiin Herran temppelin kalut, jotka Nebukadnessar oli vienyt pois Jerusalemista ja pannut oman jumalansa temppeliin.

Ne Koores, Persian kuningas, tuotatti aarteistonvartijalle, Mitredatille, ja tämä laski niiden luvun Sesbassarille, Juudan ruhtinaalle.

Ja tämä oli niiden luku: kolmekymmentä kultamaljaa, tuhat hopeamaljaa, kaksikymmentä yhdeksän uhriastiaa,

10 kolmekymmentä kultapikaria, niitä arvolta lähinnä neljäsataa kymmenen hopeapikaria, tuhat muuta kalua.

11 Kulta- ja hopeakaluja oli kaikkiaan viisituhatta neljäsataa. Kaikki nämä Sesbassar toi, silloin kun pakkosiirtolaiset tuotiin Baabelista Jerusalemiin.

Cyrus Helps the Exiles to Return(A)

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah,(B) the Lord moved the heart(C) of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:

“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:

“‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed(D) me to build(E) a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them. And in any locality where survivors(F) may now be living, the people are to provide them with silver and gold,(G) with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings(H) for the temple of God(I) in Jerusalem.’”(J)

Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin,(K) and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved(L)—prepared to go up and build the house(M) of the Lord in Jerusalem. All their neighbors assisted them with articles of silver and gold,(N) with goods and livestock, and with valuable gifts, in addition to all the freewill offerings.

Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles belonging to the temple of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his god.[a](O) Cyrus king of Persia had them brought by Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar(P) the prince of Judah.

This was the inventory:

gold dishes30
silver dishes1,000
silver pans[b]29
10 gold bowls30
matching silver bowls410
other articles1,000

11 In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and of silver. Sheshbazzar brought all these along with the exiles when they came up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Footnotes

  1. Ezra 1:7 Or gods
  2. Ezra 1:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.

And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.

Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;

Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.