¶ Cyrus sendeth agayne the people that was in captiuy••e▪ and restoreth them theyr holy vessels, and cōmaundeth them to buylde agayne the temple.
CAPI. Primo.
IN the fyrst yere of * 1.1 Cyrus [unspec A] kyng of Persia (that the word of the lorde spoken * 1.2 by the mouth of Ieremi myghte be fulfylled) the lorde styrred vp the spirite of Cyrus kyng of Persia, that he caused to be proclaymed thorowout all his empyre, and to be wrytten, saynge. Thus sayth Cyrus the kyng of Per∣sia. The Lorde God of heuen hath gyuen me all the kyngdomes of the earthe, * 1.3 and hath commaunded me to buylde hym an house at Ierusalem whiche is in Iuda.
Who soeuer nowe among you is of his [unspec B] people, the Lorde his God be with hym, and let hym go vp to Ierusalem in Iuda, & buyld the house of the Lorde God of Israell. He is the God that is at Ierusalem. And who so∣euer remayneth yet in any maner of place, (where he is a straunger) let the men of that place helpe hym with syluer and golde, with good and cattell, besyde that which they wyl∣lynglye offer, for the house of God that is at Ierusalem.
Then gat vp the principall fathers of [unspec C] Iuda and Ben Iamin, and the preestes and Leuites, and all they whose spirite God had raysed to go vp, and to buylde the house of the Lorde, whiche is at Ierusalem. And all they that were aboute them strengthed theyr hande with vessels of syluer and golde, with good and cattell, and Iuels: in so moche that euery one shewed hym selfe lyberall. And kynge Cyrus brought forthe the vessels of the house of the Lorde, * 1.4 whiche Nabu∣chodonozer had taken out of Ierusalem, and had put in the house of his God. Those dyd [unspec D] Cyrus the kynge of Persia brynge forthe by the hand of Mithridates the treasurer, & nom¦bred them vnto Sesbazar the prince of Iuda And this is the nombre of them: thyrtie char¦gers of golde, a thousand changers of syluer nyne and twentye knyues, thyrtye basyns of golde: and of other syluer basyns, foure hun¦dred and ten, and of other vessels a thousand All the vessels of golde & syluer were. v. M. and foure hundred. All these dyd Sesbazar carye awaye with them that came vp out of the captiuite of Babilon vnto Ierusalem.