Ezra 5:12-14

Complete Jewish Bible

¹² But because our ancestors provoked the God of heaven, he handed them over to N’vukhadnetzar king of Bavel, the Kasdi; he destroyed this house and carried the people off to Bavel. ¹³ But in the first year of Koresh king of Bavel, Koresh the king gave authorization to rebuild this house of God. ¹⁴ Moreover, the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which N’vukhadnetzar had removed from the temple in Yerushalayim and brought to the temple of Bavel, Koresh the king took out of the temple in Bavel; they were turned over to a man named Sheshbatzar, whom he had appointed governor.