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he, being wroth with his people for their
great ungodliness, commanded the kings of the Chaldees to come up
against them;
1Esdr 1:53 Who slew their young men with the sword, yea, even within

the compass of their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor
maid, old man nor child, among them; for he delivered all into their
hands.
1Esdr 1:54 And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great
and small, with the vessels of the ark of God, and the king's treasures,
and carried them away into Babylon.
1Esdr 1:55 As for the house of the Lord, they burnt it, and brake down
the walls of Jerusalem, and set fire upon her towers:
1Esdr 1:56 And as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they
had consumed and brought them all to nought: and the people that were
not slain with the sword he carried unto Babylon:
1Esdr 1:57 Who became servants to him and his children, till the
Persians reigned, to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of
Jeremy:
1Esdr 1:58 Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths, the whole time of
her desolation shall she rest, until the full term of seventy years.
1Esdr 2:1 In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word
of the Lord might be accomplished, that he had promised by the mouth
of Jeremy;
1Esdr 2:2 The Lord raised up the spirit of Cyrus the king of the
Persians, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, and also
by writing,
1Esdr 2:3 Saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians; The Lord of
Israel, the most high Lord, hath made me king of the whole world,
1Esdr 2:4 And commanded me to build him an house at Jerusalem in
Jewry.
1Esdr 2:5 If therefore there be any of you that are of his people, let the
Lord, even his Lord, be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem that is
in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: for he is the Lord
that dwelleth in Jerusalem.
1Esdr 2:6 Whosoever then dwell in the places about, let them help him,
those, I say, that are his neighbours, with gold, and with silver,
1Esdr 2:7 With gifts, with horses, and with cattle, and other things,
which have been set forth by vow, for the temple of the Lord at
Jerusalem.
1Esdr 2:8 Then the chief of the families of Judea and of the tribe of
Benjamin stood up; the priests also, and the Levites, and all they whose

mind the Lord had moved to go up, and to build an house for the Lord
at Jerusalem,
1Esdr 2:9 And they that dwelt round about them, and helped them in all
things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many
free gifts of a great number whose minds were stirred up thereto.
1Esdr 2:10 King Cyrus also brought forth the holy vessels, which
Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem, and had set up in
his temple of idols.
1Esdr 2:11 Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them
forth, he delivered them to Mithridates his treasurer:
1Esdr 2:12 And by him they were delivered to Sanabassar the governor
of Judea.
1Esdr 2:13 And this was the number of them; A thousand golden cups,
and a thousand of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold
thirty, and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and a thousand
other vessels.
1Esdr 2:14 So all the vessels of gold and of silver, which were carried
away, were five thousand four hundred threescore and nine.
1Esdr 2:15 These were brought back by Sanabassar, together with them
of the captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem.
1Esdr 2:16 But in the time of Artexerxes king of the Persians Belemus,
and Mithridates, and Tabellius, and Rathumus, and Beeltethmus, and
Semellius the secretary, with others that were in commission with them,
dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote unto him against them that
dwelt in Judea and Jerusalem these letters following;
1Esdr 2:17 To king Artexerxes our lord, Thy servants, Rathumus the
storywriter, and Semellius the scribe, and the rest of their council, and
the judges that are in Celosyria and Phenice.
1Esdr 2:18 Be it now known to the lord king, that the Jews that are up
from you to us, being come into Jerusalem, that rebellious and wicked
city, do build the marketplaces, and repair the walls of it and do lay the
foundation of the temple.
1Esdr 2:19 Now if this city and the walls thereof be made up again,
they will not only refuse to give tribute, but also rebel against kings.
1Esdr 2:20 And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the