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Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Ezra 1:1

PROCLAMATION OF CYRUS FOR BUILDING THE TEMPLE. (Ezra 1:1-6)

in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia--The Persian empire, including Persia, Media, Babylonia, and Chaldea, with many smaller dependencies, was founded by Cyrus, 536 B.C. [HALES].

that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled--(See Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 29:10). This reference is a parenthetic statement of the historian, and did not form part of the proclamation.

Other commentary entries containing this verse:

2 Chronicles 36:22
Ezra 1:1
Ezra 1:2
Psalms 72:20
Isaiah 14:2
Isaiah 45:3
Isaiah 45:4
Isaiah 45:6
Jeremiah 25:11
Daniel 1:21
Daniel 2:49
Daniel 6:28

 

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