Ezra 7:19

7:19 Deliver to ¹  the God of Jerusalem the vessels that are given to you for the service of the temple of your God.

Ezra 1:8

1:8 King Cyrus of Persia entrusted ²  them to ³  Mithredath ⁴  the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar ⁵  the leader of the Judahite exiles. ⁶ 

Ezra 8:36

8:36 Then they presented the decrees of the king to the king’s satraps and to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, who gave help to the people and to the temple of God.

Ezra 5:12

5:12 But after our ancestors ⁷  angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands ⁸  of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon. ⁹ 

Ezra 5:14

5:14 Even the gold and silver vessels of the temple of God that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and had brought to the palace ¹⁰  of Babylon – even those things King Cyrus brought from the palace of Babylon and presented ¹¹  to a man by the name of Sheshbazzar whom he had appointed as governor.

Ezra 9:7

9:7 From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and ¹²  priests, have been delivered over by the local kings ¹³  to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment – right up to the present time.

Ezra 8:33

8:33 On the fourth day we weighed out the silver, the gold, and the vessels in the house of our God into the care ¹⁴  of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest, and Eleazar son of Phinehas, who were accompanied by Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui, who were Levites.

Ezra 4:20

4:20 Powerful kings have been over Jerusalem who ruled throughout the entire Trans-Euphrates ¹⁵  and who were the beneficiaries of ¹⁶  tribute, custom, and toll.

Ezra 3:7

Preparations for Rebuilding the Temple

3:7 So they provided money ¹⁷  for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon ¹⁸  and Tyre, ¹⁹  so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport ²⁰  at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.

Ezra 6:8

6:8 “I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work. ²¹ 

Ezra 8:29

8:29 Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem, ²²  in the storerooms of the temple of the Lord.”

Ezra 8:25

8:25 and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels intended for the temple of our God – items that the king, his advisers, his officials, and all Israel who were present had contributed.

Ezra 1:11

1:11 All these gold and silver vessels totaled 5,400. ²³  Sheshbazzar brought them all along when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Ezra 7:15

7:15 and to bring silver and gold which the king and his advisers have freely contributed to the God of Israel, who resides in Jerusalem,

Ezra 8:26

8:26 I weighed out to them ²⁴  650 talents of silver, silver vessels worth 100 talents, ²⁵  100 talents of gold,

Ezra 8:28

8:28 Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, just as these vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.

Ezra 3:9

3:9 So Jeshua appointed both his sons and his relatives, ²⁶  Kadmiel and his sons (the sons of Yehudah ²⁷ ), to take charge of the workers in the temple of God, along with the sons of Henadad, their sons, and their relatives ²⁸  the Levites.

[7:19]  ¹ tn Or “before.”

[1:8]  ² tn Heb “brought them forth.”

[1:8]  ³ tn Heb “upon the hand of.”

[1:8]  ⁴ sn A Persian name meaning “gift of Mithras.” See HALOT 656 s.v. מִתְרְדָת.

[1:8]  ⁵ sn A Babylonian name with the probable meaning “Shamash protect the father.” See HALOT 1664-65 s.v. שֵׁשְׁבַּצַּר.

[1:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “Sheshbazzar the prince to Judah”; TEV, CEV “the governor of Judah.”

[5:12]  ⁷ tn Aram “fathers.”

[5:12]  ⁸ tn Aram “hand” (singular).

[5:12]  ⁹ sn A reference to the catastrophic events of 586 b.c.

[5:14]  ¹⁰ tn Or “temple.”

[5:14]  ¹¹ tn Aram “they were given.”

[9:7]  ¹² tc The MT lacks “and” here, but see the LXX and Vulgate.

[9:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “the kings of the lands.”

[8:33]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “upon the hand of.”

[4:20]  ¹⁵ sn The statement that prior Jewish kings ruled over the entire Trans-Euphrates is an overstatement. Not even in the days of David and Solomon did the kingdom of Israel extend its borders to such an extent.

[4:20]  ¹⁶ tn Aram “were being given to them.”

[3:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “silver.”

[3:7]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[3:7]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[3:7]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to the sea”

[6:8]  ²¹ tn The words “of the work” are not in the Aramaic, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[8:29]  ²² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[1:11]  ²³ sn The total number as given in the MT does not match the numbers given for the various items in v. 9. It is not clear whether the difference is due to error in textual transmission or whether the constituent items mentioned are only a selection from a longer list, in which case the total from that longer list may have been retained. The numbers provided in 1 Esdras come much closer to agreeing with the number in Ezra 1:9-11, but this does not necessarily mean that 1 Esdras has been better preserved here than Ezra. 1 Esdras 2:13-15 (RSV) says, “The number of these was: a thousand gold cups, a thousand silver cups, twenty-nine silver censures, thirty gold bowls, two thousand four hundred and ten silver bowls, and a thousand other vessels. All the vessels were handed over, gold and silver, five thousand four hundred and sixty-nine, and they were carried back by Shesbazzar with the returning exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem.”

[8:26]  ²⁴ tn Heb “upon their hand.”

[8:26]  ²⁵ tn Possibly “100 silver vessels worth [?] talents” or “silver vessels weighing 100 talents.”

[3:9]  ²⁶ tn Heb “brothers.”

[3:9]  ²⁷ sn The name יְהוּדָה (Yehudah; cf. KJV, ASV, NASB “Judah”) is probably a variant of Hodaviah (see Ezra 2:40; cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

[3:9]  ²⁸ tn Heb “brothers.”