Timeline of the Bible · The Captivity & the Return
Cyrus Sends the Jews Home
Event · 536 BC
What the Bible Says
- “in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia” Ezra 1:1
- “to fulfil threescore and ten years” 2 Chronicles 36:21
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 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”
The seventy years of Jeremiah 25:11-12 and 29:10, counted from the first carrying away, in the third year of Jehoiakim (Daniel 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.
