Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Ezra 5:13
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In the first year of his reign, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
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But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon [the same] king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
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But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
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But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
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Ezra 5
11 And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.
12 But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this temple and carried away the people to Babylon.
13 In the first year of his reign, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
14 He also removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken and carried there from the temple in Jerusalem. King Cyrus gave these articles to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor
15 and instructed, ‘Take these articles, put them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its original site.’
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