 | Samuel Rolles Driver, Charles Augustus Briggs - Bible - 1912 - 590 pages
...enjoyed her sabbaths : all the days of its desolation, it kept sabbath to fulfil seventy years. 22 And in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to complete (niW>) the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of... | |
 | Rowan A. Greer - Religion - 1986 - 224 pages
...22:24-25) Nor should it be surprising that the full text of the beginning of Ezra 1:1, cited above, reads: In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to accomplish the word of the Lord uttered by Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of... | |
 | Robert M. Hamma - Religion - 2013 - 432 pages
...sabbaths, during all the time it lies waste it shall have rest while seventy years are fulfilled. " In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord inspired King Cyrus of Persia to issue this... | |
 | Corrine Patton, Pauline A. Viviano, Jim Fitzgerald - Religion - 1998 - 388 pages
...Proclamation of Cyrus 2 Chron 36:22-23 //Ezra 1:1-4 2 Chron 36 22 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to complete the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah,...YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying, Ezra I 23 'Thus... | |
 | James L. Kugel - Reference - 1998 - 1092 pages
...sense, of course. The opening words of the book of Ezra, alluded to above, might be cited in full here: In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to accomplish the word of the Lord uttered by Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of... | |
 | Paul D. Bramsen - Christianity and other religions - 1998 - 548 pages
...Persia had conquered Babylon. Reading in the book of Ezra, chapter one, the Scripture says: ( Ezra 1 ) ' In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia , in order to fulfil the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to... | |
 | Liturgy Training Publications - Lectionaries - 1999 - 484 pages
...lost sabbaths, during all the time it lies waste it shall have rest while seventy years are fulfilled. In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD inspired King Cyrus of Persia to issue this... | |
 | John Mark Hicks - Providence and government of God - 1999 - 342 pages
...stirs the heart of Cyrus to destroy Babylon, he also stirs his heart to carry out Judah's restoration: "In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by 146 God, therefore, redeemed his people through the agency of... | |
 | Liturgy Training Publications - Bible - 1999 - 596 pages
...lost sabbaths, during all the time it lies waste it shall have rest while seventy years are fulfilled. In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD inspired King Cyrus of Persia to issue this... | |
 | Leslie J. Hoppe - Religion - 2000 - 204 pages
...the Temple. In fact. the express purpose for the return from exile is the rebuilding of the Temple: In the first year of Cyrus. king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LDuD spoken by Jeremiah, the LDuD inspired King Cyrus of Persia to issue this... | |
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In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and to put it in writing... 
