12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, (A)he gave them over into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel the Chaldean, and he destroyed this house, and carried the people away captive unto Babel.

13 But in the [a]first year of Cyrus king of Babel, King Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

14 And the vessels of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the Temple, that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the Temple of Babel, those did Cyrus the king take out of the Temple of Babel, and they gave them unto one [b]Sheshbazzar by his name, whom he had made captain.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 5:13 Read Ezra 1:1, 2.
  2. Ezra 5:14 Read Ezra 1:8.

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