Ezr 1:1 | JFB | STEP | 1. 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 ). This reference is a parenthetic statement of the historian, and did not form part of the proclamation.

Ezra 1:1

1. 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 Jer 25:12; 29:10). This reference is a parenthetic statement of the historian, and did not form part of the proclamation.