2 Chronicles 36:21

In context

19They burned the house of God, tore down the wall of Jerusalem, set fire to all its palaces and ruined everything of value in it. 20Those who had escaped the sword he carried off to Babylon, and there they became servants to him and to his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power. 21So the word of Yahweh spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled, until the land had made up for its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath, until seventy years were complete. 22In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, so that the word of Yahweh spoken through Jeremiah might be completed, Yahweh stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he had a proclamation sent through his whole kingdom, and put in writing as well: 23“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to all his people — may Yahweh his God be with him. Let him go up.”