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Ezra 6:1

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Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

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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 6:1 mentions Assyria, Babylon, Babylonia, Beyond the River, Ecbatana, Euphrates, Jerusalem, Media and Persia.

Assyria · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)
Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Babylonia · Radomir Vrbovsky
Beyond the River · Bazminbaz

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