2 Chronicles 36:20

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18 ^aAnd all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his leaders, all these he took to Babylon.

19 ^aThen they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.

20 And ^athose who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, ^bwhere they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,

21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of ^aJeremiah, until the land ^bhad enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate ^cshe kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

The Proclamation of Cyrus

22 ^aNow in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of ^bJeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of ^cCyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

23 ^aThus says Cyrus king of Persia:
All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a¹ house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people? May the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up!

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So we see here that in punishing Israel, God ensured that the land received the rest He had required, something it had not received in years past due to disobedience.

Excerpted from Deuteronomy, Land Sabbaths, Atonement, and Third Tithe

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