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Cyrus and Zerubbabel
How Cyrus and Zerubbabel are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Cyrus's word reached Zerubbabel.
Cyrus proclaimed that the Lord's people could go up to Jerusalem and build the house of the Lord. Zerubbabel and the other leaders refused outside help, answering that they would build "as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us".
he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing
Ezra 1:1, King James Version
let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel
Ezra 1:3, King James Version
as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us
Ezra 4:3, King James Version
Where they cross: Ezra 4:1-3
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Ezra 1:1
1Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezra 1:3
3Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 4:1-3
1Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel;
2Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.
3But 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.
King James Version