Ezra 5:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Cyrus told him, ‘Take these articles, put them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its original site.’

Cross References

Ezra 6:3

In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree  concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its original foundations be retained.  Its height is to be twenty-seven metres  and its width twenty-seven metres,

Ezra 3:3

They set up the altar on its foundation and offered burnt offerings for the morning and evening on it to the Lord even though they feared the surrounding peoples.

Ezra 1:2

This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah.

Ezra 5:14

He also took from the temple in Babylon the gold and silver articles of God’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and carried them to the temple in Babylon.  He released them from the temple in Babylon to a man named Sheshbazzar, the governor by the appointment of King Cyrus.

Ezra 5:16

Then this same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of God’s house in Jerusalem.  It has been under construction from that time until now,  but it has not been completed.