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16 and they destroyed and burned up this house, and they brought the people made thrall [or captive] into Babylon.

17 In the first year reigning Cyrus, king of Babylon, king Cyrus wrote to build up this house;

18 and those holy golden vessels and silvern, that Nebuchadnezzar had borne away from the house of God, that is in Jerusalem, and had (made) sacred (or had consecrated) them in his temple, again king Cyrus brought them forth from the temple that was in Babylon, and they were betaken to Zerubbabel, and to Sanabassar, the under-little-king.

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