Ezra 5:12-14

New Catholic Bible

¹² But because our ancestors provoked the wrath of the God of heaven, he delivered them into the power of Nebuchadnezzar, the Chaldean king of Babylon, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.

¹³ “ ‘However, King Cyrus of Babylon,^[a] in the first year of his reign, issued a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt. ¹⁴ Moreover, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had removed from the temple of Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, King Cyrus in turn removed from the temple of Babylon and ordered them to be delivered into the hands of a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor.