Now, in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, after the conquest of the Babylonian empire, the new empire, including Persia, Media, Babylonia, and Chaldea, having been founded in 536 B. C. THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD BY THE MOUTH OF JEREMIAH MIGHT BE FULFILLED, Jeremiah 25:12, THE LORD STIRRED UP T... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PROCLAMATION OF CYRUS... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth, his empire at that time being a world empire; AND HE HATH CHARGED ME TO BUILD HIM AN HOUSE AT JERUSALEM, WHICH IS IN JUDAH, either by direct Revelation or through the instruction of the prophet Dani... [ Continue Reading ]
Who is there 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 the Lord God of Israel (He is the God, whom Cyrus acknowledged and worshiped as the one true God) WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, having settled down according to the advice of the Lord by Jeremiah, Jeremiah 29:4, LET THE MEN OF HIS PLACE HELP HIM WITH SILVER, AND WITH GOLD, AND WITH GOODS, AND WITH BEASTS, for pack-animals and for traveling, giving such a one all possi... [ Continue Reading ]
Then rose up the chief of the fathers, the heads of the divisions known as father-houses, OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN, for these two tribes were chiefly concerned in this exile and the return, AND THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, WITH ALL THEM WHOSE SPIRIT GOD HAD RAISED, those in whose hearts the Lord had wr... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RETURN ARRANGED FOR... [ Continue Reading ]
And all they that were about them, all their friends and neighbors, STRENGTHENED THEIR HANDS WITH VESSELS OF SILVER, WITH GOLD, WITH GOODS, AND WITH BEASTS, AND WITH PRECIOUS THINGS, showing great liberality toward the Jews in accordance with the king's proclamation, BESIDE ALL THAT WAS WILLINGLY OF... [ Continue Reading ]
Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, those which had been used in the Sanctuary of Solomon's Temple, WHICH NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD BROUGHT FORTH OUT OF JERUSALEM, AND HAD PUT THEM IN THE HOUSE OF HIS GODS, 2 Chronicles 36:7;... [ Continue Reading ]
even those did Cyrus, king of Persia, bring forth by the hand of Mithredath, the treasurer, who had charge of all these treasures, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the Persian name for Zerubbabel, the prince of Judah, appointed governor of the returning exiles.... [ Continue Reading ]
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, baskets or containers of a peculiar kind, A THOUSAND CHARGERS OF SILVER, NINE AND TWENTY KNIVES, with chased or braided work, or they may have been sacrificial dishes serving for the pouring of the blood,... [ Continue Reading ]
thirty basins of gold, covered vessels like large cups, SILVER BASINS OF A SECOND SORT FOUR HUNDRED AND TEN, AND OTHER VESSELS A THOUSAND. These larger and more costly vessels enumerated here amounted to a total of 2,499.... [ Continue Reading ]
All the vessels of gold and silver, including those of minor value, WERE FIVE THOUSAND and four hundred. ALL THESE DID SHESHBAZZAR BRING UP WITH THEM OF THE CAPTIVITY, when the exiles returned with all their goods, THAT WERE BROUGHT UP FROM BABYLON UNTO JERUSALEM. The exodus of the Jews from Babylon... [ Continue Reading ]