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Ezra 1

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And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he made a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,

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Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth has Jehovah the God of the heavens given to me, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

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Whosoever there is among you of all his people, his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Jehovah the God of Israel -- he is God -- which is at Jerusalem.

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And whosoever remains in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the voluntary offering for the house of God which is at Jerusalem.

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And the chief fathers of Judah and Benjamin rose up, and the priests, and the Levites, even all those whose spirit God had stirred, to go up to build the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem.

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And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

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And king Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the house of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem and had put in the house of his god.

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And Cyrus king of Persia brought them forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

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And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine-and-twenty knives,

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thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second [sort] four hundred and ten, [and] other vessels a thousand.

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All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. The whole did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Ezra 2

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And these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city,

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who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Saraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

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The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two.

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The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.

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The children of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.

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The children of Pahath-Moab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

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The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.

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The children of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five.

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The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.

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The children of Bani, six hundred and forty-two.

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The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three.

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The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred and twenty-two.

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The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-six.

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The children of Bigvai, two thousand and fifty-six.

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The children of Adin, four hundred and fifty-four.

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The children of Ater of [the family of] Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

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The children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-three.

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The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.

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The children of Hashum, two hundred and twenty-three.

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The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.

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The children of Bethlehem, a hundred and twenty-three.

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The men of Netophah, fifty-six.

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The men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight.

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The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.

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The children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.

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The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.

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The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two.

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The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three.

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The children of Nebo, fifty-two.

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The children of Magbish, a hundred and fifty-six.

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The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.

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The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

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The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five.

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The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.

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The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred and thirty.

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The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

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The children of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two.

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The children of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred and forty-seven.

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The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

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The Levites: the children of Jeshua and of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

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The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and twenty-eight.

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The children of the doorkeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred and thirty-nine.

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The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

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the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

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the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,

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the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,

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the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

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the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,

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the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah, the children of Besai,

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the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephusim,

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the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

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the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

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the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,

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the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

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The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,

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the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

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the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.

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All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants, three hundred and ninety-two.

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And these are they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub-Addan, Immer; but they could not shew their fathers' house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

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The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobijah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two.

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And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

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These sought their genealogical register, but they were not found; therefore were they, as polluted, removed from the priesthood.

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And the Tirshatha said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

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The whole congregation together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

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besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

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Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules two hundred and forty-five;

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their camels four hundred and thirty-five; the asses six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

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And some of the chief fathers, when they came to the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in its place.

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They gave after their ability to the treasure of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and one hundred priests' coats.

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And the priests, and the Levites, and [some] of the people, and the singers, and the doorkeepers, and the Nethinim dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

Ezra 3

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And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem.

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Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer up burnt-offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

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And they set the altar on its base; for fear was upon them because of the people of the countries; and they offered up burnt-offerings on it to Jehovah, the morning and evening burnt-offerings.

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And they held the feast of tabernacles as it is written, and [offered] daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

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and afterwards the continual burnt-offering, and those of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of Jehovah that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a voluntary offering to Jehovah.

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From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer up burnt-offerings to Jehovah. But the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not [yet] laid.

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And they gave money to the masons and to the carpenters; and meat and drink and oil to the Zidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

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And in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem; and they appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to superintend the work of the house of Jehovah.

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And Jeshua stood up, his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, as one [man], to superintend the workmen in the house of God; [also] the sons of Henadad, their sons and their brethren, the Levites.

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And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, they set the priests in their apparel, with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise Jehovah according to the directions of David king of Israel.

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And they sang alternately together in praising and giving thanks to Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout to the praise of Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.

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But many of the priests and Levites and chief fathers, the ancient men that had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice, [when] the foundation of this house was laid in their sight; and many shouted aloud for joy.

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And the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a great shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

Ezra 4

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And the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to Jehovah the God of Israel;

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and they came to Zerubbabel and to the chief fathers, and said to them, We would build with you; for we seek your God, as ye; and we have sacrificed to him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.

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But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the chief fathers of Israel said to them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build a house to our God, but we alone will build to Jehovah the God of Israel, as king Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.

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And the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building;

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and they hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

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And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Aramaic, and interpreted in Aramaic.

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Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king after this sort:

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Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

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and the rest of the peoples whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over and settled in the cities of Samaria, and the rest [of the country] on this side the river, and so forth.

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This is the copy of the letter that they sent to him: To Artaxerxes the king: Thy servants the men on this side the river, and so forth.

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Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from thee unto us have come to Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and they complete the walls and join up the foundations.

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Be it known therefore unto the king, that, if this city be built and the walls be completed, they will not pay tribute, tax, and toll, and in the end it will bring damage to the kings.

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Now, since we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not right for us to see the king's injury, therefore have we sent and informed the king;

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that search may be made in the book of the annals of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the annals and know that this city is a rebellious city, which has done damage to kings and provinces, and that they have raised sedition within the same of old time, for which cause this city was destroyed.

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We inform the king that if this city be built and its walls be completed, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.

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The king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and the other places beyond the river: Peace, and so forth.

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The letter that ye sent to us has been read before me distinctly.

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And I gave orders, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city of old time has made insurrection against the kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been raised therein.

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And there have been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all beyond the river; and tribute, tax, and toll were paid to them.

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Now give order to make these men to cease, and that this city be not built, until the order shall be given from me;

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and take heed that ye fail not to do this: why should harm grow to the damage of the kings?

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As soon as the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them cease by force and power.

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Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Ezra 5

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Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel [did they prophesy] to them.

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Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, who helped them.

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At that time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and their companions, and said thus to them: Who gave you orders to build this house and to complete this wall?

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And they said to them after this manner: What are the names of the men that build this building?

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But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease till the matter came to Darius; and then they returned answer by letter concerning it.

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The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were on this side the river, sent to Darius the king.

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They sent a report to him in which was written thus: To Darius the king, all peace!

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Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is being built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work is being carried on with diligence, and prospers in their hand.

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Then asked we those elders: thus we said to them, Who gave you orders to build this house and to complete this wall?

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We asked their names also, to inform thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.

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And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of the heavens and the earth, and build the house that was built these many years ago; and a great king of Israel built and completed it.

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But after that our fathers had provoked the God of the heavens to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, and he destroyed this house, and carried the people away unto Babylon.

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But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, king Cyrus gave orders to build this house of God.

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And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was at Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, those did king Cyrus take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one Sheshbazzar by name, whom he had appointed governor.

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And he said to him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is at Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place.

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Then came the same Sheshbazzar, [and] laid the foundation of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and since that time even until now has it been in building, and it is not completed.

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And now, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the king's treasure-house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that orders were given by king Cyrus to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

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