Ezra 5:13
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New International Version (©2011)
"However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.

New Living Translation (©2007)
However, King Cyrus of Babylon, during the first year of his reign, issued a decree that the Temple of God should be rebuilt.

English Standard Version (©2001)
However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, he issued a decree to rebuild the house of God.

International Standard Version (©2012)
However, during King Cyrus' first year—that same King Cyrus of Babylon—issued a decree to reconstruct this Temple of God.

NET Bible (©2006)
But in the first year of King Cyrus of Babylon, King Cyrus enacted a decree to rebuild this temple of God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"However, in the first year of the reign of King Cyrus of Babylon, Cyrus gave permission for God's temple to be rebuilt.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

American King James Version
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

American Standard Version
But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, king Cyrus set forth al decree, that this house of God should be built.

Darby Bible Translation
But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, king Cyrus gave orders to build this house of God.

English Revised Version
But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

Webster's Bible Translation
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

World English Bible
But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

Young's Literal Translation
but in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon,.... That is, the first year he was king of Babylon, having taken it, otherwise he was king of Persia many years before:

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

In the first year, however, of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus made a decree, etc.; comp. Ezra 1:3. The infin. לבנא like Ezra 5:3. - On Ezra 5:14 and Ezra 5:15, comp. Ezra 1:7-11. ויחיבוּ, praeter. pass. of Peal; they were given to one Sheshbazzar, (is) his name, i.e., to one of the name of Sheshbazzar, whom he had made pechah. Zerubbabel is also called פּחה, Haggai 1:1, Haggai 1:14, and elsewhere.

Geneva Study Bible

But in the {e} first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

(e) Read Ezr 1:1,2.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13. Cyrus the king … made a decree-The Jews were perfectly warranted according to the principles of the Persian government to proceed with the building in virtue of Cyrus' edict. For everywhere a public decree is considered as remaining in force until it is revoked but the "laws of the Medes and Persians changed not" [Da 6:8, 12, 15].

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Tattenai's Letter to Darius
…12But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon. 13But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God. 14And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor; …

Ezra 1:1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:
Ezra 6:3 In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
Ezra 6:14 So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.
Jeremiah 27:22 They will be taken to Babylon and there they will remain until the day I come for them,' declares the LORD. 'Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.'"