Ezra 1:5

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Then rose up the heads of fathers' [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.

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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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Ezra 1:5 mentions Babylonia, Jerusalem and Persia.

Photo of Babylonia — Babylonia · Radomir Vrbovsky

Photo of Jerusalem — Jerusalem · Godot13

Photo of Persia — Persia · Hadis Faghiri