Gold bowls: 30 Silver bowls of another kind: 410 Miscellaneous instruments: 1,000

Sons of another Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

They sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, "For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel." All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of the house of Yahweh was laid.

Give you now command to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not built, until another command shall be given from me.

Which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which you go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.