1:5 Then the leaders 2 of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites – all those whose mind God had stirred – got ready 3 to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. 4 1:6 All their neighbors assisted 5 them with silver utensils, 6 gold, equipment, animals, and expensive gifts, not to mention 7 all the voluntary offerings.
1:7 Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the Lord’s temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed 8 in the temple of his gods. 1:8 King Cyrus of Persia entrusted 9 them to 10 Mithredath 11 the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar 12 the leader of the Judahite exiles. 13
1:9 The inventory 14 of these items was as follows:
30 gold basins, 15
1,000 silver basins,
29 silver utensils, 16
1:10 30 gold bowls,
410 other 17 silver bowls,
and 1,000 other vessels.
1:11 All these gold and silver vessels totaled 5,400. 18 Sheshbazzar brought them all along when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.