Ezra 1:5-7

New American Standard Bible 1995

Holy Vessels Restored

⁵ Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites arose, ^(A)even everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. ⁶ All those about them ^[a](B)encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with cattle and with valuables, aside from all that was given as a freewill offering. ^7 (C)Also King Cyrus brought out the articles of the house of the Lord, ^(D)which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods;