Cyrus's Edict (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Edict of Cyrus the Great is an edict authorizing and encouraging the Jews exiled by Nebuchadnezzar to relocate to the land of Israel and actively engage in rebuilding the temple destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. The edict is thrice mentioned in the Bible, each with minor textual variations and additions. The initial text (based on the view that the book of Ezra is a continuum of the text of Chronicles) of Cyrus's edict is found; And in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, at the completion of the word of the Lord in the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord aroused the spirit of Cyrus the king of Persia, and he issued a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying: So said Cyrus the king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth has the Lord God of the heavens delivered to me, and He commanded me to build Him a House in Jerusalem, which is in Judea. Who among you is of all His people.