Cyrus, king of the Persians, has entered Babylon without a fight the great empire of Babylon, which ran from central southern Iraq to the Mediterranean, falls to Cyrus.

In 550 BC, Cyrus the Great from the state of Anshan took over the Median empire, and founded the Achaemenid empire by unifying other city states.

But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

Jefferson was a great admirer the ideals of Cyrus obviously speaking to those 18th century ideals of how you create religious tolerance in a new state.

And Xenophon's book on Cyrus on how you ran a diverse society was one of the great textbooks that inspired the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution.

And across Eastern Europe, Jews display pictures of Cyrus and of George V side by side the two great rulers who have allowed the return to Jerusalem.

Here you see this out sized Cyrus cylinder on the stage with great figures from Iranian history gathering to take their place in the heritage of Iran.

But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

And that change, that great historic moment, was made possible by Cyrus, the king of Persia, reported for us in Hebrew in scripture and in Babylonian in clay.

And throughout European culture afterward, Cyrus remained the model.

Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.

And it's the subject of a huge debate about what this cylinder means, what Cyrus means, but above all, Cyrus as articulated through this cylinder Cyrus as the defender of the homeland, the champion, of course, of Iranian identity and of the Iranian peoples, tolerant of all faiths.

And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.

And so the Shah invents an Iranian history, or a return to Iranian history, that puts him in the center of a great tradition and produces coins showing himself with the Cyrus cylinder.

In ringing Babylonian it was written in Babylonian he says, I am Cyrus, king of all the universe, the great king, the powerful king, king of Babylon, king of the four quarters of the world.

It devised what might be described as the first real mail or postal system, which is said to have been developed by the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great (c. 550 BC) after his conquest of Media.

Following the fall of Babylon to the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE, some Judean exiles returned to Jerusalem, inaugurating the formative period in the development of a distinctive Judahite identity in the Persian province of Yehud.

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar and the thing was true, even a great warfare and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

And that very night Cyrus, king of the Persians, entered Babylon and the whole regime of Belshazzar fell.

Babylonian rule was toppled however in the 540s, by Cyrus, who founded the Persian Empire in its place.

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree Concerning God's house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid its height sixty cubits, and its breadth sixty cubits

And so in Isaiah, we have the wonderful texts giving all the credit of this, not to Marduk but to the Lord God of Israel the Lord God of Israel who also called Cyrus by name, also takes Cyrus by the hand and talks of him shepherding his people.

Now 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,

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, 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,

They ultimately submitted to Cyrus, and from the battle of Eurymedon to the latter part of the Peloponnesian War they were subject to Athens.

even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Many common network services are provided such as NTP, SNMP, web server (Apache), mail server (Postfix and Cyrus), LDAP (OpenLDAP), AFP, and print server.

Carter had difficulty choosing between the muscular line of his national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the more moderate approach of his secretary of state, Cyrus Vance.

Because interestingly, of course, Cyrus is a good Iranian with a totally different set of gods who are not mentioned in any of these texts.

But I think it's possible that the most powerful and the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods

This means that your great, great, great great, great, great with about five million greats in there grandmother was probably the same great, great, great, great grandmother with five million greats in there as Holly up here.

Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods

Islamic revolution, no more Cyrus we're not interested in that history, we're interested in Islamic Iran until Iraq, the new superpower that we've all decided should be in the region, attacks.

Thus said Cyrus, king of Persia, 'All the kingdoms of the earth have the Lord God of heaven given thee, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem.

See also Nadir Shah Ottoman Persian Wars References Dictionary of Wars, George C. Kohn, 2007, p. 561 Iran and the West a critical bibliography, Cyrus Ghani, 1987, p. 287 288 Notes

Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built ' and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'

That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.