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|  V1 We see the precise usage of these words in verse one in reference to the context in [[2 Chronicles 36]]:22. Cyrus became king of Persia in B.C. 559. Twenty years afterwards he took [[Babylon]] from Belshazzar.  While there is some confusion ‘the first year of Cyrus’ is generally computed to have been 538 B.C. Cyrus was born about 590 B.C. 
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| V1 [[Isaiah 45]]:1-7 is a prophecy of what we see described in [[Ezra 1]]. This [[cause and effect]] maybe referenced in [[Matthew 28]]:18-20.   The prophecy of the 70 years, [[Jeremiah 29]]:10<Ref>[[Jeremiah 29]]:10  For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.</Ref>
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| V2 In the books written after the [[captivity]](last part of Chronicles, in [[Nehemiah]], and [[Daniel]]), "The LORD God" is styled ''the God of heaven'', and not ''Lord of hosts''.
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|V3 How is that house<Ref name="house">{{01004}}</Ref> to be built (וְיִ֗בֶן)<Ref>{{01129}}</Ref>? What does it mean in [[Isaiah 45]]:13<Ref>[[Isaiah 45]]:13 "I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts."</Ref> where God says of Cyrus, ''He shall build my city''? Would it be one of the [[cities of blood]]? <Br> How should the ''foundation for the temple be laid in Jerusalem'' [[Isaiah 44]]:28<Ref>[[Isaiah 44]]:28, "He shall say to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid."</Ref> Should it be built with hands?<Ref name="nohands">{{nohands}}</Ref>
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| V4 Help<Ref>{{05375}}</Ref> besides the "[[freewill offering]]s"<Ref>{{05071}}</Ref>
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|V5 The "chief<Ref name="roshe">{{07218}}</Ref> of the [[fathers]]" are the heads of families whose spirits were raised to ''build the house of the [[LORD]] which [is] in [[Jerusalem]]''. But the LORD does not live in a house built with hands.<Ref name="nohands">{{nohands}}</Ref>
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| V6  "[that] was willingly offered" hiṯnaddêḇ (הִתְנַדֵּֽב׃)<Ref>{{05068}}</Ref> 
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| V7 Things that had been taken were returned with them.
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| V8 Sheshbazzar "worshipper of fire" is said to be a prince of Judah at the first return from exile in Babylon; usually identified as the Babylonian name for Zerubbabel
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| V9 Some say that these Large knives were used in the killing of the sacrifices but this word for "Knives is considered a doubtful word because it is only used here. The etymology points to some employment of "basket-work" by some but others suggest ‘censers’ or even ‘changes of raiment’ or others see it as ‘vessels adorned’.<Br> 
The word translated ''knives'' in the text is maḥălāp̄îm (מַחֲלָפִ֖ים) which is MemChetLamedPeiYodMem.<Ref>{{04252}}</Ref>  A common word for ''knife'' is chereb (חֶרֶב)<Ref>{{02719}}</Ref> which is ChetReishBeit.
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| V11 ''All these did Sheshbazzar(ShinShinBeitTzadikReish(שֵׁשְׁבַּצַּר‎))<Ref name="Sheshbazzar">{{08339}}</Ref> (Who is said to be Zërubbabel ((זְרֻבָּבֶל‎)ZayinReishBeitBeitLamed)<Ref name="Zerubbabel">{{02216}}</Ref>) bring up with them of the [[captivity]]''  on their way from [[Babylon]]((בָּבֶל)מִבָּבֶ֖ל) unto [[Jerusalem]]((יְרוּשָׁלַם)לִירוּשָׁלִָֽם)<Ref name="Jerusalem">{{03389}}</Ref>.
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== The decree of Cyrus ==

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

2 Thus saith [[Cyrus]] king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

== Go to Jerusalem ==

3 Who ''is there'' among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of [[Israel]], (he is the God,) which ''is'' in [[Jerusalem]].

4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the [[freewill offering]] for the house of God that is in [[Jerusalem]].

== Chief of Fathers ==

5 Then rose up the chief of the [[fathers]] of Judah and Benjamin, and the [[priests]], and the [[Levites]], with all ''them'' whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was [[freewill offering|willingly offered]].

7 Also [[Cyrus]] the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which [[Nebuchadnezzar]] had brought forth out of [[Jerusalem]], and had put them in the house of his [[gods]];

8 Even those did [[Cyrus]] king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar<Ref name="Sheshbazzar">{{08339}}</Ref> bring up with them of the [[captivity]] that were brought up from [[Babylon]] unto [[Jerusalem]].


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