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    Ezra · 11 verses

    Ezra 1

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    The list counts 2,499 articles, then solemnly declares 5,400, leaving the arithmetic standing like an unopened cupboard.

    A royal commission in the voice of Jerusalem’s Godvv. 1–4

    In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, the LORD stirs his spirit to send a written proclamation throughout the kingdom. Cyrus says that the God of heaven, who has given him all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed him to build the LORD’s house at Jerusalem in Judah. The survivors are invited to go, while their neighbours are instructed to furnish them with silver, gold, goods, livestock, and freewill offerings.

    The people rise, and the cupboard is openedvv. 5–11

    The family heads of Judah and Benjamin, together with the priests and Levites, prepare to go up because God has stirred their spirits, and their neighbours support them with gifts. Cyrus then brings out the articles that Nebuchadnezzar carried away from Jerusalem, appointing Mithredath to count them out to Sheshbazzar. The listed figures total 2,499, while the closing total is 5,400; the text offers no explanation, but Sheshbazzar carries all the articles from Babylon to Jerusalem with the exiles.

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    1. Ezra 1:1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

    2. Ezra 1:2“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.

    3. Ezra 1:3Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.

    4. Ezra 1:4And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”

    5. Ezra 1:5So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

    6. Ezra 1:6And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.

    7. Ezra 1:7King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.

    8. Ezra 1:8Cyrus king of Persia had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

    9. Ezra 1:9This was the inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 silver utensils,

    10. Ezra 1:1030 gold bowls, 410 matching silver bowls, and 1,000 other articles.

    11. Ezra 1:11In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 1Jeremiah 29:10For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
    • 12 Chronicles 36:22–23In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
    • 1Jeremiah 25:12–14But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
    • 1Ezra 6:22For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.
    • 1Ezra 7:27Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
    • 1Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
    • 1Jeremiah 33:7–13I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.
    • 1Ezra 5:13–15In the first year of his reign, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
    • 2Isaiah 45:12–13It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.
    • 3Daniel 6:26I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.
    • 5Ezra 1:1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
    • 3Jeremiah 10:10But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
    • 72 Chronicles 36:7Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
    • 1Psalms 106:46He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
    • 7Ezra 5:14He also removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken and carried there from the temple in Jerusalem. King Cyrus gave these articles to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor
    • 72 Kings 24:13As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.

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