5. So the family leaders from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin prepared to go up to Jerusalem. They were going to Jerusalem to build the Lord’S Temple. Also everyone who God had encouraged prepared to go to Jerusalem.
6. All their neighbors gave them many gifts. They gave them silver, gold, animals, and other expensive things. Their neighbors freely gave them all those things.
7. Also, King Cyrus brought out the things that belonged in the Lord’S Temple that Nebuchadnezzar had taken away from Jerusalem. He had put them in his temple where he kept his false gods.
8. King Cyrus of Persia told Mithredath, the man who keeps his money, to bring those things out. So Mithredath brought them out to Sheshbazzar, the leader of Judah.
9. This is what Mithredath brought out of the Lord’s Temple: 30 gold dishes, 1000 silver dishes, 29 knives and pans,
10. 30 gold bowls, 410 silver bowls similar to the gold bowls, and 1000 other dishes.
11. All together, there were 5400 things made from gold and silver. Sheshbazzar brought them all with him when the prisoners left Babylon and went back to Jerusalem.