Ezra 1:6
And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 538 BC
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
SEE ALSO
- Ezra 1:4 And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in…
- 2 Corinthians 9:7 Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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