Zerubbabel and Joshua accompany a second group of exiles returning to JerusalemĮzra 2:1-70 King Cyrus dies in 530BC and is succeeded by his son Cambyses. Work begins on re-building the Temple in 536BC, and the Temple treasures, which had been taken to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar, are returned to Jerusalem. He is given the treasures taken from the Temple in Jerusalem and returns to Judah with the first group of exiles. The Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem (Herwig Reidlinger)Įzra 1:5-11 Sheshbazzar is made Governor of Judah by King Cyrus in 537BC (see Ezra 5:14).
The Jewish exiles from Judah (the ‘Golah’) return to Jerusalem in four groups spread over 92 years between 537BC and 445BC. The return of the exiles is a gradual process spanning the following century. He orders that groups of exiles within the Persian Empire should return home and worship their own gods (in order to pacify these gods and gain their approval for Cyrus’s empire). The later years of exile & the return to JudahĮzra 1:1-4 The Babylonian Empire is conquered by Cyrus, King of Persia, in 539BC.
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