Timeline of the Bible · The Captivity & the Return
Cyrus
King of Persia · 536–529 BC
The Years
- Began 536 BC
- “Cyrus, his father Cambyses being now dead in Persia, Cyaxares in Media, held all the Empire or Monarchie of the East in his own hand”
- Ended 529 BC
- “having lived from the time that he was first made General of the Median and Persian armies, full 30. years: and after the taking of Babylon, 9 years”
King of Persia, counted here from his first year over the whole empire (Ezra 1:1).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
