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Whosoever then dwell in the places about, let them help him; those, I say, who are his neighbors; with gold and with silver,
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with gifts, with horses and with cattle, and other things which have been set forth by vow, for the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem."
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Then the chief of the families of Judea and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up, the priests also and the Levites and all those whose mind the Lord had moved to go up and to build a house for the Lord at Jerusalem.
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And those who dwelt round about them helped them in all things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many free gifts of a great number, whose minds were stirred up thereto.
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King Cyrus also brought forth the holy vessels, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and had set up in his temple of idols.
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Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he delivered them to Mithredath his treasurer;
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and by him they were delivered to Sheshbazzar the governor of Judea.
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And this was the number of them: a thousand golden cups and a thousand of silver, censers of silver twenty-nine, vials of gold thirty and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and a thousand other vessels.
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So all the vessels of gold and of silver which were carried away were five thousand four hundred threescore and nine.
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These were brought back by Sheshbazzar, together with those of the captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem.
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But in the time of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, Bishlam, and Mithredath, and Tabeel, and Rehum, and Beeltethmus, and Shimshai the secretary, with others who were in commission with them, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote unto him against those who dwelt in Judea and Jerusalem these letters following: