, and carried away the
people captives unto Babylon.

1 Esdr 6:17
But in the first year that king Cyrus reigned over the country
of Babylon Cyrus the king wrote to build up this house.

1 Esdr 6:18
And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, that Nabuchodonosor
had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem, and had set them
in his own temple those Cyrus the king brought forth again out
of the temple at Babylon, and they were delivered to Zorobabel
and to Sanabassarus the ruler,

1 Esdr 6:19
With commandment that he should carry away the same vessels,
and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of
the Lord should be built in his place.

1 Esdr 6:20
Then the same Sanabassarus, being come hither, laid the foundations
of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem; and from that time to this
being still a building, it is not yet fully ended.

1 Esdr 6:21
Now therefore, if it seem good unto the king, let search be made
among the records of king Cyrus:

1 Esdr 6:22
And if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord
at Jerusalem hath been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and
if our lord the king be so minded, let him signify unto us thereof.

1 Esdr 6:23
Then commanded king Darius to seek among the records at Babylon:
and so at Ecbatane the palace, which is in the country of Media,
there was found a roll wherein these things were recorded.

1 Esdr 6:24
In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded
that the house of the Lord at Jerusalem should be built again,
where they do sacrifice with continual fire:

1 Esdr 6:25
Whose height shall be sixty cubits and the breadth sixty cubits,
with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood of that
country; and the expences thereof to be given out of the house
of king Cyrus:

1 Esdr 6:26
And that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both of
gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at
Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, should be restored to the
house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were
before.

1 Esdr 6:27
And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and
Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those
which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phenice, should be
careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the
servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of
the Jews, to build the house of the Lord in that place.

1 Esdr 6:28