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I. ESDRAS. Chapter 2

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1 Esdras Chapter 2 Original 1611 Bible Scan
1 Esdras Chapter 2 Original 1611 Bible Scan

CHAP. II.

1 Cyrus is moued by God to build the Temple, 5 And giueth leaue to the Iewes to returne & contribute to it. 11 He deliuereth againe the vessels which had bin taken thence. 25 Artaxerxes forbiddeth the Iewes to build any more.

1In the first yeere of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the worde of the Lorde might bee accomplished, that hee had promised by the mouth of Ieremie:1

2The Lord raised vp the spirit of Cyrus the king of the Persians, and he made proclamation thorow al his kingdome, and also by writing,

3Saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians, The Lord of Israel the most high Lord, hath made me king of the whole world,

4And commanded me to build him an house at Ierusalem in Iurie.

5If therefore there bee any of you that are of his people, let the Lord, euen his Lord be with him, and let him goe vp to Ierusalem that is in Iudea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: for he is the Lord that dwelleth in Ierusalem.5

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6Whosoeuer then dwell in the places about, let them helpe him, those I say that are his neighbours, with gold and with siluer,

7With gifts, with horses, and with cattell, and other things, which haue bene set forth by vowe, for the Temple of the Lord at Ierusalem.

8¶ Then the chiefe of the families of Iudea, and of the tribes of Beniamin stood vp: the priests also and the Leuites, and all they whose minde the Lord had moued to goe vp, and to build an house for the Lord at Ierusalem,

9And they that dwelt round about them, and helped them in all things with siluer and gold, with horses and cattell, and with very free gifts of a great number whose mindes were stirred vp thereto.9

10King Cyrus also brought foorth the holy vessels which Nabuchodonosor had caried away from Ierusalem, and had set vp in his temple of idoles.

11Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them foorth, hee deliuered them to Mithridates his treasurer:

12And by him they were deliuered to Sanabassar þe gouernour of Iudea.12

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13And this was the number of them, a thousand golden cuppes, and a thousand of siluer, censers of siluer twentie nine, vials of gold thirtie, and of siluer two thousand foure hundred and ten, and a thousand other vessels.13

14So all the vessels of gold, and of siluer which were caried away, were fiue thousand, foure hundred, threescore and nine.14

15These were brought back by Sanabassar, together with them of the captiuity, from Babylon to Ierusalem.

16But in the time of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, Belemus, and Mithridates, and Tabellius, and Rathumus, and Beeltethmus, and Semellius the Secretarie, with others that were in commission with them, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote vnto him against them that dwelt in Iudea and Ierusalem, these letters following.16

17To King Artaxerxes our lord, Thy seruants Rathumus the story writer, and Semellius the scribe, and the rest of their counsell, and the Iudges that are in Coelosyria and Phenice.

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18Be it now knowen to the lord the king, that the Iewes that are come vp from you to vs, being come into Ierusalem (that rebellious and wicked citie,) doe build the market places, and repaire the walles of it, and doe lay the foundation of the Temple.

19Now if this citie, and the walles thereof be made vp againe, they will not onely refuse to giue tribute, but also rebell against kings.

20And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the Temple, are now in hand, we thinke it meete not to neglect such a matter,

21But to speake vnto our lord the king, to the intent that if it be thy pleasure, it may be sought out in the bookes of thy fathers:

22And thou shalt finde in the Chronicles, what is written concerning these things, and shalt vnderstand that that citie was rebellious, troubling both kings and cities:

23And that the Iewes were rebellious, and raised alwayes warres therin, for the which cause euen this citie was made desolate.

24Wherefore now wee doe declare vnto thee, (O lord the king) that if this citie bee built againe, and the walles thereof set vp anew, thou shalt from hencefoorth haue no passage into Corlosyria and Phenice.

25Then the King wrote backe againe to Rathumus the storie-writer, to Beeltethmus, to Semellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and dwellers in Samaria and Syria, and Phenice, after this maner.

26I haue read the Epistle which ye haue sent vnto mee: therefore I commanded to make diligent search, and it hath bene found, that that city was from the beginning practising against Kings.

27And the men therein were giuen to rebellion, and warre, and that mightie Kings and fierce were in Ierusalem, who reigned and exacted tributes in Coelosyria and Phenice.

28Now therefore I haue commanded to hinder those men from building the citie, and heed to be taken that there be no more done in it,

29And that those wicked workers proceed no further to the annoyance of Kings.

30Then king Artaxerxes his letters being read, Rathumus and Semellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, remoouing in hast towards Ierusalem with a troupe of horsemen, and a multitude of people in battell aray, began to hinder the builders, and the building of the Temple in Ierusalem ceased vntill the second yeere of the reigne of Darius King of the Persians.30



Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for 1 Esdras Chapter 2

1 2.Chron. 36.22. ezra 1.1, &c.
5 Or, this.
9 Hebr. substance, Ezr. 1.6.
12 Shash-bazar. Greek the first part of the word is corruptly ioyned to the word going before, Ezra 1.8.
13 Hebr. kniues, Ezra 1.9. , Ezra.1. 10. but foure hundred and ten.
14 Ezra.1. 11. but fiue thousand foure hundred.
16 Ezra 4.6. , Bahumus and the name which followeth, is but an epithete to the former, Ezra 4.9. , Shimshai, Ezra 4.8.
30 Or, a great number of souldiers.


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