11.1-3: 2 Chron 36.22-23; Ezra 5.13; 6.3.In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

2“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel — he is the God who is in Jerusalem; 4and let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.”

5Then rose up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, every one whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem; 6and all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered. 7Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD which Nebuchadnez'zar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods. 8Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in charge of Mith'redath the treasurer, who counted them out to Shesh-baz'zar the prince of Judah. 9And this was the number of them: a thousand1.9 1 Esdras 2.13: Heb thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, twenty-nine censers, 10thirty bowls of gold, two thousand1.10 1 Esdras 2.13: Heb of a second sort four hundred and ten bowls of silver, and a thousand other vessels; 11all the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred and sixty-nine.1.11 1 Esdras 2.14: Heb five thousand four hundred All these did Shesh-baz'zar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.