9 After that they issued a call throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring to Jehovah the sacred tax+ ordered by Moses+ the servant of the [true] God* upon Israel in the wilderness.

22 And in the first year of Cyrus*+ the king of Persia,+ that Jehovah’s word+ by the mouth of Jeremiah+ might be accomplished, Jehovah roused the spirit+ of Cyrus+ the king of Persia, so that he caused a cry to pass through all his kingdom, and also in writing,+ saying: