Ezra 5:12-14

New Living Translation

¹² But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he abandoned them to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,^[a] who destroyed this Temple and exiled the people to Babylonia. ¹³ However, King Cyrus of Babylon,^[b] during the first year of his reign, issued a decree that the Temple of God should be rebuilt. ¹⁴ King Cyrus returned the gold and silver cups that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the Temple of God in Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of Babylon. These cups were taken from that temple and presented to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom King Cyrus appointed as governor of Judah.