⁶ And all of those around them ^[a](A)encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with equipment, cattle, and with valuables, aside from everything that was given as a ^[b]voluntary offering. ^7 (B)Also King Cyrus brought out the articles of the house of the Lord, ^(C)which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods; ⁸ and Cyrus, king of Persia, had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to ^(D)Sheshbazzar, the leader of Judah.