2 Chronicles 36:23
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Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.
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Babylon, in Chaldea (southern Mesopotamia), was the empire that had exiled Judah; Egypt, southwest of Judah, had earlier influenced its final kings. Persia, east of Babylon, conquered that empire, and Cyrus’s decree from Babylon authorized the Jews’ return to Jerusalem
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2 Chronicles 36:23 mentions Babylon, Chaldea, Egypt, Jerusalem and Persia.
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