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“Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: ‘All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord, the God of heaven,[a] has given to me, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:2 The God of heaven: this title, used as in 7:12, 21, 23, corresponds to a title of the Zoroastrian supreme deity Ahura Mazda, though it is not certain that Cyrus was a Zoroastrian.

“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:

“‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed(A) me to build(B) a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.

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