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Ezra 5:6

The copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor on this side of the river, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the governors, who were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:

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Bede

AD 735

But also let the gold and silver vessels of the temple of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be returned and brought back to their place in Jerusalem, which also have been placed in the temple of the god. When he says that the vessels were at that time placed 'in the temple of the god', he means the temple of the Babylonians in which Nebuchadnezzar had put them and, as is stated more clearly earlier in the book,1 from which Cyrus had ordered they be removed and brought back to Jerusalem. The letter of King Cyrus that had been found in Ecbatana ends at this point. To which suddenly in a novel and unusual way there is an addition in the name and authority of King Darius:

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