Ezr 1:2, 4:5, Est 1:3, Isa 13:17, 21:2, 44:28, Jer 51:11, Dan 5:31, 6:28 | ESV | STEP | Thus says Cyrus king of Persia : The Lord , the God of heaven , has given me all the kingdoms of the earth , and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem , which is in Judah .

s[See ver. 28 above]

u 2 Chr. 36:22, 23; Ezra 1:2; 4:3, 5; 6:3, 14; Isa. 44:28; 45:1; [ch. 1:21; 10:1]

Ezra 1:2

2 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and ^ahe has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezra 4:5

5 and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Esther 1:3

3 in the third year of his reign ^bhe gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,

Isaiah 13:17

17 Behold, ^cI am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.

Isaiah 21:2

2 A stern vision is told to me;
^dthe traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O ^eElam;
lay siege, O ^fMedia;
all the ^gsighing she has caused
I bring to an end.

Isaiah 44:28

28 who says of ^hCyrus, ‘He is ⁱmy shepherd,
and he shall fulfill all my purpose’;
saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’
^jand of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”

Jeremiah 51:11

11 ^k“Sharpen the arrows!
Take up the shields!
^lThe Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of ^mthe Medes, because ⁿhis purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, ^ofor that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for ^phis temple.

Daniel 5:31

31 ^{▼▼Ch 6:1 in Aramaic} And ^rDarius ^sthe Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

Daniel 6:28

28 So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and ^tthe reign of ^uCyrus the Persian.