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Other gifts had been promised, for priests, Levites and people, by the men of his court; the controllers of the Lord’s house, Helcias, Zacharias and Jahiel, gave the priests, for their paschal victims, two thousand six hundred lambs and kids, and three hundred bulls; (2 Chronicles 35, 8)
he also carried off (some of) the furniture of the Lord’s house, and laid it up in his own temple there.✻ (2 Chronicles 36, 7)
and when the spring came round, Nabuchodonosor had him brought to Babylon, with all the most precious of the furniture that was left in the Lord’s house. And he set up as king of Juda and Jerusalem Joachin’s uncle Sedecias. (2 Chronicles 36, 10)
All the furniture of the Lord’s house, great and small, all the treasures of temple and king and princes, must be carried off to Babylon. (2 Chronicles 36, 18)
Enemy hands set fire to the Lord’s house, pulled down Jerusalem’s walls, burnt its towers to the ground, destroyed all that was of price. (2 Chronicles 36, 19)
Some of the clan chiefs, upon entering the Lord’s temple at Jerusalem, made of their own accord an offering for rebuilding God’s house where it stood; (Ezra 2, 68)
But Zorobabel and Josue and the clan chiefs told them, To build a house to our God can be no common task of yours and ours. The Lord is our God, and we alone must be the builders of it; such were the orders given to us by Cyrus, king of Persia. (Ezra 4, 3)
Then Cyrus became king of Babylon; and Cyrus, in his first year, gave order that this house of God should be rebuilt. (Ezra 5, 13)
Take these, he said, and lay them up in the temple at Jerusalem.✻ The house of God, he said, must be rebuilt on its old foundations. (Ezra 5, 15)
May it please the king’s grace to have research made in the royal archives, there at Babylon, to find out whether Cyrus did indeed give any orders for God’s house at Jerusalem to be rebuilt; meanwhile, we await the royal pleasure. (Ezra 5, 17)
In the first year of king Cyrus a royal decree was made about the house of God at Jerusalem. It is to be rebuilt, for the better offering of sacrifice; foundations to be laid that will support a structure sixty cubits … high and sixty wide; (Ezra 6, 3)
the Jewish ruler and the Jewish elders must be allowed to go on with their temple-building, so that this house of God may be re-established on its ancient site. (Ezra 6, 7)
