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So all of their neighbors equipped the travelers[a] with silver, gold, equipment, pack animals, and valuable goods, in addition to voluntary offerings.

Temple Instruments Returned

King Cyrus also brought out from storage[b] the service instruments from the Temple of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his gods.[c] Cyrus, king of Persia, had them brought out to Mithredath the Treasurer, had them inventoried, and had them placed in care of[d] Sheshbazzar,[e] governor of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 1:6 Lit. strengthened their hands
  2. Ezra 1:7 The Heb. lacks from storage
  3. Ezra 1:7 LXX his god
  4. Ezra 1:8 Lit. Treasurer, and numbered them to
  5. Ezra 1:8 I.e. Zerubbabel; Sheshbazzar is the Persian equivalent (cf. 2:2)