2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 169
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CHAPTER 2:
1 Cyrus is moved by Elohim to build the
Temple, 5 And gives leave to the Yahudim to
return and contribute to it. 11 He delivers
again the vessels which had been taken
thence. 25 Artaxerxes (Cambyses) forbid the
Yahudim to build any more.
Cyrus Permits the Exiles
to Return
Cf.
2 Chr. 36:22;
Ezra 1:1.
Or, this.
1 In the first year of Cyrus
king of the Persians, that the
word of Yahuah might be
accomplished, that he had
promised by the mouth of
YirmiYahu:
2 Yahuah raised up the
spirit of Cyrus the king of
the Persians, and he made
proclamation through all his
kingdom, and also by writing,
3 Saying, Thus says Cyrus
king of the Persians, Yahuah
of Israel the Most High
Yahuah, has made me king of
the whole world,
4 And commanded me to build
him an house at Yerusalem in
Yahudea.
5 If therefore there be any
of you that are of his people,
let Yahuah, even his Lord be
with him, and let him go up to
Yerusalem that is in Yahudea,
and build the house of Yahuah
of Israel: for he is Yahuah that
dwells in Yerusalem.
6 Whosoever then dwell in the
places about, let them help
him, those I say that are his
K I N G D O M
neighbors, with gold and with
silver,
7 With gifts, with horses, and
with cattle, and other things,
which have been set forth by
vow, for the Temple of Yahuah
at Yerusalem.
8 Then the chief of the
families of Yahudea, and of
the tribes of Benyamin stood
up: the priests also and the
Levites, and all they whose
mind Yahuah had moved to
go up, and to build an house
for Yahuah at Yerusalem,
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 free gifts of a
great number whose minds Hebr.
substance,
Cf. Ezr. 1:6.
were stirred up thereto.
10 King Cyrus also brought
forth the holy vessels which
Nebuchadnezzar had carried
away from Yerusalem, and
had set up in his temple of
idols.
11 Now when Cyrus king
of the Persians had brought Shash-bazar.
them forth, he delivered them Greek the
first part of
to Mithridates his treasurer: the word
is corruptly
12 And by him they were joined to the
word going
delivered to Sheshbazzar the before,
Cf. Ezra 1:8.
governor of Yahudea.
13 And this was the number
of them, a thousand golden
cups, and a thousand of
silver, censors of silver twenty.
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