Ezra 5:12-15

Contemporary English Version

^12 (A) We were told that their people had made God angry, and he let them be captured by Nebuchadnezzar,^[a] the Babylonian king^[b] who took them away as captives to Babylonia. Nebuchadnezzar tore down their temple, ^13-15 (B) took its gold and silver articles, and put them in the temple of his own god in Babylon.

They also said that during the first year Cyrus was king of Babylonia,^[c] he gave orders for God's temple to be rebuilt in Jerusalem where it had stood before. So Cyrus appointed Sheshbazzar governor of Judah and sent these gold and silver articles for him to put in the temple.