¹⁹^wThen they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions. ²⁰And ^xthose who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, ^ywhere they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, ²¹to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of ^zJeremiah, until the land ^ahad enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate ^bshe kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

The Proclamation of Cyrus

²²^cNow in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of ^dJeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of ^eCyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

²³^fThus says Cyrus king of Persia:

All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a ⁹house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people? May the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up!

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Footnotes

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Cross references

w 2 Kin. 25:9; Ps. 79:1, 7; Is. 1:7, 8; Jer. 52:13
x 2 Kin. 25:11; Jer. 5:19; Mic. 4:10
y Jer. 17:4; 27:7
z Jer. 25:9–12; 27:6–8; 29:10
a Lev. 26:34–43; Dan. 9:2
b Lev. 25:4, 5
c Ezra 1:1–3
d Jer. 29:10
e Is. 44:28; 45:1
f Ezra 1:2, 3