1 Esdras 6:17
“But in the first yeere that King Cyrus reigned ouer the country of Babylon, Cyrus the king wrote to build vp this house.”
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1 Esdras 6:17 Context
15But when our fathers prouoked God vnto wrath, and sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heauen, hee gaue them ouer into the power of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon of the Chaldees: 16Who pulled downe the house and burnt it, and caried away the people captiues vnto Babylon. 17But in the first yeere that King Cyrus reigned ouer the country of Babylon, Cyrus the king wrote to build vp this house. 18And the holy vessels of gold and of siluer, that Nabuchodonosor had caried away out of the house at Ierusalem, and had set them in his owne temple, those Cyrus the king brought forth againe out of the temple at Babylon, and they were deliuered to Zorobabel and to Sanabassarus the ruler, 19With commaundement that hee should carrie away the same vessels, and put them in the Temple at Ierusalem, and that the Temple of þe Lord should be built in his place.
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But in the first year that king Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon Cyrus the king wrote to build up this house.
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