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Ezra 5:13

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5:13 But in the first year of King Cyrus of Babylon, 1  King Cyrus enacted a decree to rebuild this temple of God.

1 sn Cyrus was actually a Persian king, but when he conquered Babylon in 539 b.c. he apparently appropriated to himself the additional title “king of Babylon.” The Syriac Peshitta substitutes “Persia” for “Babylon” here, but this is probably a hyper-correction.



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