2. Ezra 1

¹Perslerin kralı Kiros'un birinci yılında, Rab'bin Yeremya'nın ağzından bildirdiği sözü yerine gelsin diye, Rab Perslerin kralı Kiros'un ruhunu harekete geçirdi; Kiros da tüm krallığında sözlü olarak sesini duyurdu ve hatta yazılı olarak şöyle buyurdu:

²"Perslerin kralı Kiros şöyle diyor: Göklerin Tanrısı Rab yeryüzünün bütün krallıklarını bana verdi ve Yahudiye'deki Yeruşalim'de Kendisi için bir tapınak inşa etmem üzere beni bizzat görevlendirdi.

³Aranızda O'nun tüm halkından kim varsa, Tanrısı onunla birlikte olacaktır; Yahudiye'deki Yeruşalim'e yukarı çıksın ve Yeruşalim'deki Tanrı olan, İsrail'in Tanrısı'nın tapınağını inşa etsin; çünkü Yeruşalim'deki Tanrı bizzat O'dur.

⁴Bizzat gurbette yaşadığı tüm yerlerden geride kalan her kim varsa, o yerin adamları onu gümüşle, altınla, mallarla ve hayvanlarla, Yeruşalim'deki Tanrı'nın tapınağı için sunulan gönüllü adaklarla birlikte destekleyecektir."

⁵Böylece Yahuda ve Benyamin'in baba soylarının önderleri, kâhinler, Levililer ve Tanrı'nın, Yeruşalim'deki Rab'bin tapınağını inşa etmek üzere yukarı çıkmak için ruhlarını harekete geçirdiği herkes ayağa kalktı.

⁶Çevrelerindeki herkes de, gönüllü adakların yanı sıra, gümüş kaplar, altın, mallar, hayvanlar ve konukseverlik hediyeleriyle onlara destek oldu.

⁷Kral Kiros, Nebukadnessar'ın Yeruşalim'den alıp kendi tanrısının tapınağına koymuş olduğu Rab'bin tapınağına ait kapları da dışarı çıkardı.

⁸Perslerin kralı Kiros bunları hazinedar Mitradates'in eliyle çıkardı ve onları Yahuda önderi Şeşbassar'a sayarak teslim etti.

⁹Bunların sayısı şuydu: otuz altın şarap soğutma kabı, bin gümüş şarap soğutma kabı, yirmi dokuz farklı türde kap,

¹⁰otuz altın kâse, dört yüz on ikincil gümüş kâse ve bin başka kap.

¹¹Altın ve gümüş kapların tümü beş bin dört yüz adetti; bunların hepsi, Babil'deki sürgünden Yeruşalim'e Şeşbassar ile birlikte yukarı çıkan kaplardı.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει Κύρου τοῦ Βασιλέως Περσῶν τοῦ τελεσθῆναι λόγον Κυρίου ἀπὸ στόματος ῾Ιερεμίου, ἐξήγειρε Κύριος τὸ πνεῦμα Κύρου βασιλέως Περσῶν, καὶ παρήγγειλε φωνὴν ἐν πάσῃ βασιλείᾳ αὐτοῦ καί γε ἐν γραπτῷ λέγων·

²οὕτως εἶπε Κῦρος βασιλεὺς Περσῶν· πάσας τὰς βασιλείας τῆς γῆς ἔδωκέ μοι Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπεσκέψατο ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ τοῦ οἰκοδομῆσαι οἶκον αὐτῷ ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ τῇ ἐν τῇ ᾿Ιουδαίᾳ.

³τίς ἐν ὑμῖν ἀπὸ παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ; καὶ ἔσται ὁ Θεὸς αὐτοῦ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀναβήσεται εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ τὴν ἐν τῇ ᾿Ιουδαίᾳ, καὶ οἰκοδομησάτω τὸν οἶκον Θεοῦ ᾿Ισραὴλ (αὐτὸς ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ).

⁴καὶ πᾶς ὁ καταλιπόμενος ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν τόπων, οὗ αὐτὸς παροικεῖ ἐκεῖ, καὶ λήψονται αὐτὸν ἄνδρες τοῦ τόπου αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀργυρίῳ καὶ χρυσίῳ καὶ ἀποσκευῇ καὶ κτήνεσι μετὰ τοῦ ἑκουσίου εἰς οἶκον τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

⁵καὶ ἀνέστησαν ἄρχοντες τῶν πατριῶν τῶν ᾿Ιούδα καὶ Βενιαμὶν καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς καὶ οἱ Λευῖται, πάντων ὧν ἐξήγειρεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτῶν τοῦ ἀναβῆναι οἰκοδομῆσαι τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου τὸν ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

⁶καὶ πάντες οἱ κυκλόθεν ἐνίσχυσαν ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν ἐν σκεύεσιν ἀργυρίου, ἐν χρυσῷ, ἐν ἀποσκευῇ καὶ ἐν κτήνεσι καὶ ἐν ξενίοις, πάρεξ τῶν ἑκουσίων.

⁷καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς Κῦρος ἐξήνεγκε τὰ σκεύη οἴκου Κυρίου, ἃ ἔλαβε Ναβουχοδονόσορ ἀπὸ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὰ ἐν οἴκῳ Θεοῦ αὐτοῦ·

⁸καὶ ἐξήνεγκεν αὐτὰ Κῦρος ὁ βασιλεὺς Περσῶν ἐπὶ χεῖρα Μιθραδάτου γασβαρηνοῦ, καὶ ἠρίθμησεν αὐτὰ τῷ Σασαβασὰρ τῷ ἄρχοντι τοῦ ᾿Ιούδα.

⁹καὶ οὗτος ὁ ἀριθμὸς αὐτῶν· ψυκτῆρες χρυσοῖ τριάκοντα καὶ ψυκτῆρες ἀργυροῖ χίλιοι, παρηλλαγμένα ἐννέα καὶ εἴκοσι,

¹⁰κεφουρῆς χρυσοῖ τριάκοντα καὶ ἀργυροῖ διπλοῖ τετρακόσια δέκα καὶ σκεύη ἕτερα χίλια.

¹¹πάντα τὰ σκεύη τῷ χρυσῷ καὶ τῷ ἀργυρῷ πεντακισχίλια καὶ τετρακόσια, τὰ πάντα ἀναβαίνοντα μετὰ Σασαβασὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς ἀποικίας ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

¹Now in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he issued a proclamation through all his kingdom, and that in writing, saying,

²Thus said Cyrus king of the Persians, The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has given me a charge to build him a house in Jerusalem that is in Judea.

³Who [is] there among you of all his people? for his God shall be with him, and he shall go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and let him build the house of the God of Israel: he [is] the God that is in Jerusalem.

⁴And [let] every [Jew] that is left [go] from every place where he sojourns, and the men of his place shall help him with silver, and gold, and goods, and cattle, together with the voluntary offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

⁵Then the chiefs of the families of Juda and Benjamin arose, and the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit the Lord stirred up to go up to build the house of the Lord that [is] in Jerusalem.

⁶And all that were round about strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with cattle, and with presents, besides the voluntary offerings.

⁷And king Cyrus brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had brought from Jerusalem, and put in the house of his god.

⁸And Cyrus king of the Persians brought them out by the hand of Mithradates the treasurer, and he numbered them to Sasabasar, the chief man of Juda.

⁹And this [is] their number: thirty gold basons, and a thousand silver basons, nine and twenty changes, thirty golden goblets,

¹⁰and four hundred [and] ten double silver [vessels], and a thousand other vessels.

¹¹All the gold and silver vessels were five thousand four hundred, [even] all that went up with Sasabasar from the [place of] transportation, from Babylon to Jerusalem.