em that is in
Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: for he is the Lord
that dwelleth in Jerusalem.

1 Esdr 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,

1 Esdr 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.

1 Esdr 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,

1 Esdr 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.

1 Esdr 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.

1 Esdr 2:11
Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he
delivered them to Mithridates his treasurer:

1 Esdr 2:12
And by him they were delivered to Sanabassar the governor of Judea.

1 Esdr 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.

1 Esdr 2:14
So all the vessels of gold and of silver, which were carried away,
were five thousand four hundred threescore and nine.

1 Esdr 2:15
These were brought back by Sanabassar, together with them of the
captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem.

1 Esdr 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;

1 Esdr 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.

1 Esdr 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 temp