1Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

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Jeremiah 29:10, Jeremiah 29:10, 2 Chronicles 36:22, 2 Chronicles 36:23, 2 Chronicles 36:22

2"Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, 'The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

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Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 45:13, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 45:13, Isaiah 44:26

3Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 10:10, Daniel 6:26, Jeremiah 10:10, Daniel 6:26, Isaiah 45:5

4Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for God's house which is in Jerusalem.'"

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1 Chronicles 29:3, 1 Chronicles 29:3, Ecclesiastes 4:9, Ecclesiastes 4:10, 1 Chronicles 29:17

5Then the heads of fathers' households of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

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Ezra 1:1, Ezra 1:1, Philippians 2:13, Philippians 2:13, Nehemiah 2:12

6All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

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2 Corinthians 9:7, Ezra 8:25, Ezra 8:28, Ezra 1:4, Ezra 7:15

7Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;

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2 Chronicles 36:7, 2 Chronicles 36:7, Ezra 5:14, 2 Kings 24:13, Ezra 6:5

8even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

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Ezra 5:14, Ezra 5:14, Ezra 5:16, Haggai 2:2, Haggai 2:4

9This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,

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1 Kings 7:50, 2 Chronicles 4:11, Numbers 7:19, Numbers 7:89, 2 Chronicles 4:8

10thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.

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11All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up, when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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Matthew 1:11, Matthew 1:12, 2 Timothy 2:19, 2 Timothy 2:21, Romans 9:23