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Ezra 1:2

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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.

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The Babylonian and Persian EmpiresThe Babylonian and Persian empires that carried Judah into exile and later allowed the return.

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Persia was the empire ruled by Cyrus, whose decree authorized Judah’s exiles in Babylonia, the Mesopotamian land of their captivity, to return. Jerusalem, the city where God’s temple had stood, was the destination for rebuilding the house of the Lord.

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Ezra 1:2 mentions Babylonia, Jerusalem and Persia.

Babylonia · Radomir Vrbovsky
Jerusalem · Godot13
Persia · Hadis Faghiri

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