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21 And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.(A)

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21 Daniel remained in the royal service until the first year of the reign of King Cyrus.[a]

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  1. 1:21 Cyrus began his reign (over Babylon) in 539 B.c.

21 And Daniel [a]continued until the (A)first year of Cyrus the king.

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  1. Daniel 1:21 Lit was until

21 And Daniel remained there until the [a]first year of [the reign of] King Cyrus [over Babylon; now this was at the end of the seventy-year exile of Judah (the Southern Kingdom) in Babylonia, as foretold by Jeremiah].(A)

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  1. Daniel 1:21 Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, ruled from 559-529 b.c. He conquered the Median (549 b.c.), the Lydian (546 b.c.), and the Neo-Babylonian (539 b.c.) kingdoms and formed the greatest empire the world had ever known. He returned a remnant of the Jewish population from Babylon to Jerusalem along with an edict to rebuild the temple.

21 Daniel continued in the king’s service until the first year in the reign of King Cyrus.

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