1 Esdras 6:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁶ and they pulled down the house, and burned it, and carried the people away captive to Babylon. ¹⁷ But in the first year that Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylonia, King Cyrus wrote that this house should be rebuilt. ¹⁸ And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the house in Jerusalem and stored in his own temple, these King Cyrus took out again from the temple in Babylon, and they were delivered to Zerubbabel and Sheshbazzar^[a] the governor