2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 187
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you by writing, we demanded
of them who were the chief
doers, and we required of
them the names in writing of
their principal men.
13 So they gave us this answer:
We are the servants of Yahuah
which made heaven and earth.
14 And as for this house, it
was builded many years ago,
by a king of Israel great and
strong, and was finished.
15 But when our fathers
provoked Elohim unto wrath,
and sinned against Yahuah of
Israel which is in heaven, he
gave them over into the power
of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon of the Chaldees:
16 Who pulled down the
house and burnt it, and carried
away the people captives unto
Babylon.
17 But in the first year that
King Cyrus reigned over the
country of Babylon, Cyrus
the king wrote to build up this
house.
18 And the holy vessels
of gold and of silver, that
Nebuchadnezzar had carried
away out of the house at
Yerusalem, and had set them
Or, in his own temple, those Cyrus
Zorobabel,
which is also the king brought forth again
Sanabassar
the ruler, so out of the temple at Babylon,
as Zorobabel
seemed to be and they were delivered to
added to the
text, Zerubbabel and Sheshbazzar
Ezra 1:8.
the ruler,
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T E M P L E
19 With commandment that
he should carry away the
same vessels, and put them in
the Temple at Yerusalem, and
that the Temple of Yahuah
should be built in his place.
20 Then the same Sheshbazzar
being come hither, laid the
foundations of the house of
Yahuah at Yerusalem, and
from that time to this, being
still a building, it is not yet
fully ended.
21 Now therefore if it seem
good unto the king, let search
be made among the records
Or, rules.
of King Cyrus,
22 And if it be found, that
the building of the house of
Yahuah at Yerusalem has been
done with the consent of King
Cyrus, and if our lord the king
be so minded, let him signify
unto us thereof.
Official
Granted
Permission
23 Then commanded king
Darius to seek among the
records at Babylon: and so at
Ecbatana the palace which is
in the country of Media, there
was found a rule wherein these
Or, place.
things were recorded.
24 In the first year of the
reign of Cyrus, king Cyrus
commanded that the house of
Yahuah at Yerusalem should
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