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Ezra 1:7
King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — King Cyrus of Persia orders the retrieval of sacred temple articles that Nebuchadnezzar had looted from Jerusalem and stored in a pagan temple. This decree initiates the physical restoration of worship objects as the exiled community prepares to return, following the material contributions noted in Ezra 1:6.
The words — The Hebrew הוֹצִיא (ho.Tzi') means "he brought out," and כְּלֵי (ke.Lei) translates to "vessels" or "articles." These terms specify the physical removal and cataloging of objects previously set apart for Yahweh’s house.
The thread — The text directly reverses Nebuchadnezzar’s earlier plundering documented in 2 Kings 24:13 and 2 Chronicles 36:7, while Ezra 5:14 later confirms these same Babylonian-removed articles were still held in a Babylon temple until Cyrus’s command.
Why it lands — The verse records a concrete political act that restores desecrated property, requiring the reader to track the physical continuity of worship objects across decades of exile. It demands recognition that historical authority can be redirected to reverse prior destruction without spiritual embellishment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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;
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
- 2 Kings 24:13 As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
- Ezra 5:14 He also removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken and carried there from the temple in Jerusalem. King Cyrus gave these articles to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor
- Ezra 6:5 Furthermore, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, must also be returned to the temple in Jerusalem and deposited in the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 36:10 In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 25:13 Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 36:18 who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.
- Jeremiah 27:21 Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:
- Jeremiah 28:3 Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.
- Daniel 1:2 And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.