# Ezra 1:7

> King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.

— Ezra 1:7, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Jerusalem** (Judea · today Jerusalem) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/jerusalem

## When

- 538 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Ezra 1:1 dates itself by the first year of Cyrus; his first year over Babylon is 538 BC by the Babylonian tablets.

## Who ruled

- **Cyrus the Great**, king of Persia, 559-530 BC · Source: Cyrus Cylinder (British Museum), which records the policy of sending peoples and their cults back to their own lands; Herodotus I

## See also

- 2 Chronicles 36:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-chronicles/36/7
- 2 Kings 24:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/24/13
- Ezra 5:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezra/5/14
- Ezra 6:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezra/6/5
- 2 Chronicles 36:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-chronicles/36/10

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezra/1/7
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezra/1
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).