Cyrus
Now therefore, if [it seem] good to the king, let there be
search made in the king's treasure house, which [is] there at
Babylon, whether it be [so], that a decree was made of Cyrus
the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the
king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter....
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But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the
fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with
us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together
will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king
of Persia hath commanded us....
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And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God,
which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that [was] in
Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those
did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they
were delivered unto [one], whose name [was] Sheshbazzar, whom
he had made governor;...
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(Old Persian Kuruš), was King of Anshan in Persia from c.
600 to 580 BC or, according to others, from c. 652 to 600
BC. He should not be confused with his famous grandson Cyrus
the Great, also known as Cyrus II. His name in Modern
Persian is کوروش, while in Greek he was called Κύρος.
Cyrus was an early member of the Achaemenid dynasty. He was
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(Old Persian:, IPA: [kʰuːruʃ], Kūruš[4], Persian: کوروش بزرگ,
Kūrosh-e-Bozorg) (c. 600 BC or 576 BC – December[5][6] 530
BC), also known as Cyrus II or Cyrus of Persia,[7] was the
first Zoroastrian Persian emperor. He was the founder of the
Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty.[8]
It was under his own rule that the empire embraced all
p...
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1. Genealogy of Cyrus:
The son of the earlier Cambyses, of the royal race of the
Achemenians. His genealogy, as given by himself, is as
follows: "I am Cyrus, king of the host, the great king, the
mighty king, king of Tindir (Babylon), king of the land of
Sumeru and Akkadu, king of the four regions, son of Cambyses,
the great king, king of the ...
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(King of Persia)
-Issues a decree for the emancipation of the Jews and
rebuilding the temple
2Ch 36:22,23; Ezr 1; 3:7; 4:3; 5:13,14; 6:3
-Prophecies concerning
Isa 13:17-22; 21:2; 41:2; 44:28; 45:1-4,13; 46:11;
48:14,15...
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(the sun), the founder of the Persian empire --see 2Ch
36:22,23; Da 6:28; 10:1,13 --was, according to the common
legend, the son of Cambyses, a Persian of the royal family of
the Achaemenidae. When he grew up to manhood his courage and
genius placed him at the head of the Persians. His conquests
were numerous and brilliant. He defeated and cap...
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(Heb. Ko'resh), the celebrated "King of Persia" (Elam) who
was
conqueror of Babylon, and issued the decree of
liberation to the
Jews (Ezra 1:1, 2). He was the son of Cambyses, the
prince of
Persia, and was born about B.C. 599. In the year
B.C. 559 he
became king of Persia, the kingdom of Media being
added to it
partly by conquest. Cyrus w...
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Koresh, from the Persian kohr "the sun," as Pharaoh from phrah
"the sun." Founder of the Persian empire. Represented as the
son of Mandane, who was daughter of Astyages last king of
Media, and married to Cambyses a Persian of the family of the
Achaemenidae. Astyages, because of a dream, directed Harpagus
his favorite to have the child Cyrus de...
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