13 However, in the first year of King Cyrus of Babylon, he issued a decree to rebuild the house of God.(A) 14 He also took from the temple in Babylon the gold and silver articles of God’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and carried them to the temple in Babylon.(B) He released them from the temple in Babylon to a man named Sheshbazzar, the governor by the appointment of King Cyrus.(C) 15 Cyrus told him, “Take these articles, put them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its original site.”(D)

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