RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

13 But in the first year of Koresh the melech of Bavel the
same melech Koresh made a decree to rebuild this Bayit
of Elohim.
14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the Bayit of
Elohim, which Nevuchadnetzar took out of the Hekal that
was in Yahrushalayim, and brought them into the hekal of
Bavel, those did Koresh the melech take out of the hekal
of Bavel, and they were delivered to one, whose name
was Sheshbatstsar, whom he had made governor;
15 And said to him, Take these vessels, go, carry them
into the Hekal that is in Yahrushalayim, and let the Bayit
of Elohim be rebuilt in its place.
16 Then came the same Sheshbatstsar, and laid the
foundation of the Bayit of Elohim that is in
Yahrushalayim: and since that time, even until now it is
being rebuilt, and yet it is not finished.
17 Now therefore, if it seems tov to the melech, let there
be a search made in the melech’s treasure bayit, which is
there at Bavel, whether it is true, that a decree was made
by Koresh the melech to rebuild this Bayit of Elohim at
Yahrushalayim, and let the melech send his decision to us
concerning this matter.
6 Then Daryawesh the melech made a decree, and a
search was made in the bayit of the records, where the
treasures of Bavel were kept.
2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is
in the province of the Medes, a scroll, and in it was a
record with this written:
3 In the first year of Koresh the melech the same Koresh
the melech made a decree concerning the Bayit of Elohim
at Yahrushalayim, Let the Bayit be rebuilt, the place
where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations of it
be strongly laid; the height of it sixty cubits, and the
width of it sixty cubits;
4 With three rows of great stones, and a row of new
timber: and let the expenses be given out of the melech’s
bayit:
5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the Bayit of
tvkt, which Nevuchadnetzar took out of the Hekal
which is at Yahrushalayim, and brought to Bavel, be
restored, and brought again to the Hekal which is at
Yahrushalayim, every piece to its place, and place them
in the Bayit of Elohim.
6 Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river,
Shethar-Boznai, and your companions the officials, who
are beyond the river, stay away from the city and the Beit
HaMikdash:
7 Leave the work of this Bayit of Elohim alone; let the
governor of the Yahudim and the zechanim of the
Yahudim rebuild this Bayit of Elohim in its place.
8 Moreover I make a decree what you shall do for the
zechanim of these Yahudim for the building of this Bayit
of Elohim: that from the melech’s goods, even from the
expenses beyond the river, that immediately all expenses
be paid to these men, that they be not hindered.
9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks,
and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the Elohim
of the shamayim, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to
the orders of the Kohanim which are at Yahrushalayim,
let it be given to them daily without fail:
10 That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savors to the
Elohim of the shamayim, and make tefillah for the
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chayim of the melech, and of his sons.
11 Also I have made a decree, that whoever shall alter
this word, let timber be pulled down from his bayit, then
reset, and let him be hanged on it; and let his bayit be
made into a dunghill for this.
12 And the Elohim that has caused His Name to dwell
there will destroy all of the melechim and peoples that
shall put their hand to alter and to destroy this Bayit of
Elohim which is at Yahrushalayim. I Daryawesh have
made a decree; let it be done quickly.
13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side of the river,
Shethar-Boznai, and their companions, according to all
that Daryawesh the melech had sent, so they did and
obeyed immediately.
14 And the zechanim of the Yahudim rebuilt, and they
prospered through the prophesying of Chaggai the navi
and Zacharyah the son of Iddo. And they rebuilt, and
finished it, according to the commandment of the Elohim
of Yisrael, and according to the commandment of Koresh,
and Daryawesh, and Artahshashta melech of Persia. 4162
15 And this Bayit was finished on the third day of the
month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of
Daryawesh the melech.
16 And the children of Yisrael, the Kohanim, and the
Lewiym, and the rest of the children of the exile, kept the
dedication of the Bayit of Elohim with simcha,
17 And offered at the dedication of the Bayit of Elohim a
hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
and for a sin offering for kol Yisrael, twelve male goats,
according to the number of the tribes of Yisrael. 4163
18 And they set the Kohanim in their divisions, and the
Lewiym in their divisions, for the service of Elohim,
which is at Yahrushalayim; as it is written in the scroll of
Moshe.
19 And the children of the exile kept the Pesach upon the
fourteenth day of the first month.
20 For the Kohanim and the Lewiym were cleansed
together, all of them were clean, and killed the Pesach for
all the children of the exile, and for their brothers the
Kohanim, and for themselves.
21 And the children of Yisrael, who had come again out
of the exile, 4164 and all such as had separated themselves
to join them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land,
to seek vuvh Elohim of Yisrael, did eat,
22 And kept the moed of Chag Matzoth seven days with
simcha: for vuvh had made them full of simcha, and
turned the lev of the melech of Ashshur to them, to
strengthen their hands in the work of the Bayit of Elohim,
the Elohim of Yisrael.
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Now after these things, in the reign of Artahshashta
melech of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiyah, the son of
Azaryah, the son of Hilkiyahu,
2 The son of Shallum, the son of Tzadok, the son of
Achituv,
3 The son of Amaryah, the son of Azaryah, the son of
Meraioth,
4 The son of Zerahyah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Buchi,
5 The son of Avishua, the son of Pinchus, the son of El-
Azar, the son of Aharon the Kohen HaGadol:
6 This Ezra went up from Bavel; and he was a skilled
Sopher in the Torah of Moshe, which vuvh Elohim of
Yisrael had given: and the melech granted him all his