Then I said to the priests and to all this people, "This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, 'Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.' They are prophesying to you a lie. Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin? If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not be taken to Babylon. For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: 'They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,' declares the LORD. 'Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.'"
King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods. Cyrus king of Persia had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. This was the inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 silver utensils, 30 gold bowls, 410 matching silver bowls, and 1,000 other articles. In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Significance
Jeremiah 27:22 promises that the temple vessels taken to Babylon will remain there "until the day I attend to them again... Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place." Ezra 1:7-11 records the precise fulfillment: "King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem." The detailed inventory in Ezra — 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 knives, 5,400 gold and silver articles in all — demonstrates meticulous accounting of God's faithfulness to Jeremiah's promise. The return of the vessels functions as tangible proof that the prophetic word was reliable and that God had indeed "attended to" His people as promised. The Hebrew behind this promise—עַד יוֹם פָּקְדִי אֹתָם, 'ad yom paqdi otam, "until the day I attend to them"—names the very appointed moment whose fulfillment Ezra's inventory confirms.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type
Allusion
Connection Method(s)
Promise-Fulfillment — Jeremiah's explicit oracle "I will bring them back and restore them to this place" (27:22) is met by Ezra's recorded inventory of the returned vessels; the pair demonstrates a spoken promise and its documented fulfillment, so the additional Longitudinal Theme label is not carried (no theme development is traced between these texts).
