Ezra 1:2

Thus saith Koresh Melech Paras (Persia), Hashem Elohei HaShomayim hath given me all the kingdoms of ha'aretz; and he hath charged me to build him Beis + 1:2 Hamikdash at Yerushalayim, which is in Yehudah.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

In Context

1Now in the first year + 1:1 539 B.C.E. of Koresh Melech Paras (Persia), that the Devar Hashem by the mouth of Yirmeyah might be fulfilled, Hashem stirred up the ruach of Koresh Melech Paras (Persia), so that he made a proclamation throughout all his Malchut, and put it also in writing, saying,

3Who is there among you of all His people, Elohav be with him, let him go up to Yerushalayim, which is in Yehudah, and build the Beis Hashem Elohei Yisroel, (He is HaElohim) which is in Yerushalayim.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:27But will Elohim indeed dwell on ha'aretz? Hinei, the Shomayim and the Shemei HaShomayim cannot contain Thee; how much less this Bayit that I have built?

Ezra 5:15And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, deposit them into the Heikhal that is in Yerushalayim, and let the Beis Elohim be built in its place.

Ezra 6:10That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the Elohei Shomayim, and pray for the chayyei Melech, and of his banim.

Nehemiah 1:4And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for several yamim, and did a tzom, and davened before Elohei HaShomayim,

Psalms 85:2Hashem, Thou hast been favorable unto Thy land; 1 Thou hast brought back the captivity of Ya'akov. 1

Isaiah 41:2Who awakened the just one + 41:2 Koresh, Cyrus 44:28 from the mizrach (east), 1 called him to His raglayim, 1 gave the Goyim before him, 1 and made him rule over melachim? 1 He gave them as the aphar to his + 41:2 the conquerorʼs cherev, 1 and as windblown kash (chaff, stubble) to his + 41:2 the conquerorʼs keshet (bow). 1

Matthew Henry on Ezra 1:2-5

Ezra The Jewish church puts on quite another face in this book from what it had appeared with; its state much better, and more pleasant, than it was of late in Babylon, and yet far inferior to what it had been formerly. The dry bones here live again, but in the form of a servant; the yoke of their captivity is taken off, but the marks of it in their galled necks remain. Kings we hear no more of; the crown has fallen from their heads. Prophets they are blessed with, to direct them in their re-establishment, but,… Read the whole commentary →

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