1 Esdras 6:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But in the first year of Cyrus’ rule over the country of Babylonia, King Cyrus wrote that this house should be rebuilt. ¹⁷ King Cyrus took out the holy gold and silver equipment from the temple in Babylon, which Nebuchadnezzar had removed from the house in Jerusalem and deposited in his own temple. Cyrus handed it over to Zerubbabel and the governor Sheshbazzar ¹⁸ with the order that they^[a] take all of this equipment back and place it in the temple in Jerusalem, and that the Lord’s temple be rebuilt on its site.