Ezra 1:11
In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Jerusalem, Babylonia
- WHEN
- 538 BC
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WHEN
538 BC
dated by the text itself
The decree that allows the return, seventy years after the first deportation.
WHO RULED
- Cyrus the Great king of Persia 559-530 BC
SOURCES
- date — Ezra 1:1 dates itself by the first year of Cyrus; his first year over Babylon is 538 BC by the Babylonian tablets.
- Cyrus the Great — Cyrus Cylinder (British Museum), which records the policy of sending peoples and their cults back to their own lands; Herodotus I
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