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Cyrus Return-Decree (539 BCE) — Cyrus Cylinder / Ezra

Sovereign-Granted Root — Cyrus return-decree (539 BCE)

After taking Babylon (539 BCE), Cyrus the Great restored local shrines and allowed deported peoples to return (Cyrus Cylinder, Babylonian cuneiform); the biblical account (Ezra 1:1-4; 2 Chron 36:22-23) records a decree permitting the Judean return and Temple rebuild, under local autonomy within…