13‘However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God. 14‘Also the gold and silver utensils of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, and brought them to the temple of Babylon, these King Cyrus took from the temple of Babylon and they were given to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor. 15‘He said to him, “Take these utensils, go and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem and let the house of God be rebuilt in its place.” 16‘Then that Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem; and from then until now it has been under construction and it is not yet completed.’ 17“Now if it pleases the king, let a search be conducted in the king’s treasure house, which is there in Babylon, if it be that a decree was issued by King Cyrus to rebuild this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send to us his decision concerning this matter.”

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American Standard Version
But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, king Cyrus set forth al decree, that this house of God should be built.

Darby Bible Translation
But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, king Cyrus gave orders to build this house of God.

English Revised Version
But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

Webster's Bible Translation
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

World English Bible
But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

Young's Literal Translation
but in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God,"The Prophets of God Helping Them"
Close by the Israelites who had set themselves to the task of rebuilding the temple, dwelt the Samaritans, a mixed race that had sprung up through the intermarriage of heathen colonists from the provinces of Assyria with the remnant of the ten tribes which had been left in Samaria and Galilee. In later years the Samaritans claimed to worship the true God, but in heart and practice they were idolaters. It is true, they held that their idols were but to remind them of the living God, the Ruler of the …
Ellen Gould White—The Story of Prophets and Kings

Ezra-Nehemiah
Some of the most complicated problems in Hebrew history as well as in the literary criticism of the Old Testament gather about the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Apart from these books, all that we know of the origin and early history of Judaism is inferential. They are our only historical sources for that period; and if in them we have, as we seem to have, authentic memoirs, fragmentary though they be, written by the two men who, more than any other, gave permanent shape and direction to Judaism, then …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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