Ezra 1:2
“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Jerusalem, Persia
- 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 IN THE TEXT
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
SEE ALSO
- Isaiah 45:12-13 It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host. …
- Isaiah 44:26–45:1 who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be…
- Daniel 5:19-21 Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he…
- Daniel 5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and…
- Daniel 4:32 You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the…
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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