Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
By the first year of Cyrus is to be understood the first year of his sovereignty over the Jews, or 538 BC
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ezra 1:1:
2 Chronicles 36:22
Ezra 3:7
Ezra 9:8
Psalms 126:2
Isaiah 14:2
Isaiah 27:13
Isaiah 44:28
Isaiah 44:28
Isaiah 45:4
Isaiah 45:6
Isaiah 52:10
Daniel 1:21
Daniel 2:39
Daniel 9:1
Obadiah 1:1
Micah 2:12
Haggai 1:14
Zechariah 1:12
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