:

Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahweh to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

:

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

:

Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

:

At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Yahweh, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

:

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:

:

and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God; he didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of Yahweh.

:

He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

:

Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

:

Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

:

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

:

Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.

:

All the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

:

They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.

:

He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

:

to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

:

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,

:

“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’”

:

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,

:

“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

:

Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.

:

Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.’”

:

Then the heads of fathers’ [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.

:

All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

:

Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;

:

even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

:

This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,

:

thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.

:

All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

:

Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;

:

who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

:

The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.

:

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.

:

The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.

:

The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.

:

The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

:

The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five.

:

The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.

:

The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.

:

The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.

:

The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two.

:

The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six.

:

The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.

:

The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.

:

The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

:

The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three.

:

The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.

:

The children of Hashum, two hundred Twenty-three.

:

The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.

:

The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.

:

The men of Netophah, fifty-six.

:

The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.

:

The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.

:

The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

:

The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.

:

The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.

:

The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.

:

The children of Nebo, fifty-two.

:

The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.

:

The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

:

The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.

:

The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.

:

The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

:

The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.

:

The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.

:

The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.

:

The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

:

The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.

:

The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

:

The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.

:

The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.

:

The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

:

the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

:

the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,

:

the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,

:

the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

:

the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,

:

the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,

:

the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,

:

the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

:

the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

:

the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

:

the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

:

The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,

:

the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

:

the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.

:

All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

:

These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

:

the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.

:

Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

:

These sought their register [among] those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

:

The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

:

The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

:

besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

:

Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

:

their camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

:

Some of the heads of fathers’ [houses], when they came to the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place:

:

they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

:

So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

:

When the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

:

Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.