Uzair 1

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Allah by the mouth of Armiya might be accomplished, Allah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, ²Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Allah, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. ³Whoever 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 Allah, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem. ⁴Whoever is left, in any place where he resides, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill-offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem. ⁵Then rose up the heads of fathers' houses of Judah and Binyamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Allah which is in Jerusalem. ⁶All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered. ⁷Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Allah, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods; ⁸even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. ⁹This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives, ¹⁰thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand. ¹¹All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.