Ezra 5:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he delivered them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon the Chaldean: and he destroyed this house, and carried away the people to Babylon.

¹³ But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, king Cyrus set forth a decree, that this house of God should be built.

¹⁴ And the vessels also of gold and silver of the temple of God, which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, and had brought them to the temple of Babylon, king Cyrus brought out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one Sassabasar, whom also he appointed governor,