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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Persia
The empire that took Babylon under Cyrus. Unlike the empires before it, Persia let the exiled Jews go home and rebuild their temple, and Ezra keeps the decree.
First, in plain English
The empire that took Babylon under Cyrus. Unlike the empires before it, Persia let the exiled Jews go home and rebuild their temple, and Ezra keeps the decree.
Who this is
Persia was the empire that conquered Babylon under Cyrus and, in a major policy shift from earlier empires, allowed the exiled Jews to return home and rebuild their temple, a decree preserved in the book of Ezra and independently corroborated by the Cyrus Cylinder.
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The word
H6539 · H6540
Where it appears
- 2 Chronicles 36:20
- 2 Chronicles 36:22
- 2 Chronicles 36:23
- Ezra 1:1
- Ezra 1:2
- Ezra 1:8
- Ezra 3:7
- Ezra 4:3
- Ezra 4:5
- Ezra 4:7
- Ezra 7:1
- Ezra 9:9
- Esther 1:3
- Esther 1:14
- Esther 1:18
- Esther 1:19
- Esther 10:2
- Ezekiel 27:10
- Ezekiel 38:5
- Daniel 8:20
- Daniel 10:1
- Daniel 10:13
- Daniel 10:20
- Daniel 11:2
- Ezra 4:24
- Ezra 6:14
- Daniel 5:28
- Daniel 6:8
- Daniel 6:12
- Daniel 6:15
