All of those are respected by Cyrus.

And Cyrus makes a declaration.

And the obvious emblem is Cyrus.

They want to borrow the Cyrus cylinder.

Cyrus cylinder guarantor of the Shah.

Cyrus begins in the 530s BC.

Marduk, we hold, called Cyrus by his name.

But what Cyrus represented remained absolutely central.

But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

And throughout European culture afterward, Cyrus remained the model.

Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.

And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.

Cyrus, king of the Persians, has entered Babylon without a fight the great empire of Babylon, which ran from central southern Iraq to the Mediterranean, falls to Cyrus.

And it's the subject of a huge debate about what this cylinder means, what Cyrus means, but above all, Cyrus as articulated through this cylinder Cyrus as the defender of the homeland, the champion, of course, of Iranian identity and of the Iranian peoples, tolerant of all faiths.

Cyrus sets up a model of how you run a great multinational, multifaith, multicultural society.

And last year, the Cyrus cylinder went to Tehran for the second time.

The Greek historian Xenophon wrote his book Cyropaedia promoting Cyrus as the great ruler.

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We only knew about the return of the Jews and the decree of Cyrus from the Hebrew scriptures.

The empire of Iran, the Medes and the Persians, united under Cyrus, became the first great world empire.

Marduk tells Cyrus that he will do these great, generous things of setting the people free.

So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

And that very night Cyrus, king of the Persians, entered Babylon and the whole regime of Belshazzar fell.

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

I think it's recognized that Cyrus doesn't realize that he's acting under orders from Jehovah.

Because interestingly, of course, Cyrus is a good Iranian with a totally different set of gods who are not mentioned in any of these texts.

Marduk takes Cyrus by the hand, calls him to shepherd his people and gives him the rule of Babylon.

even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

And so in Isaiah, we have the wonderful texts giving all the credit of this, not to Marduk but to the Lord God of Israel the Lord God of Israel who also called Cyrus by name, also takes Cyrus by the hand and talks of him shepherding his people.

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree Concerning God's house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid its height sixty cubits, and its breadth sixty cubits

In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits

and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Here you see this out sized Cyrus cylinder on the stage with great figures from Iranian history gathering to take their place in the heritage of Iran.

But I think it's possible that the most powerful and the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built ' and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'

That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

And that change, that great historic moment, was made possible by Cyrus, the king of Persia, reported for us in Hebrew in scripture and in Babylonian in clay.

And Xenophon's book on Cyrus on how you ran a diverse society was one of the great textbooks that inspired the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution.

Jefferson was a great admirer the ideals of Cyrus obviously speaking to those 18th century ideals of how you create religious tolerance in a new state.

And across Eastern Europe, Jews display pictures of Cyrus and of George V side by side the two great rulers who have allowed the return to Jerusalem.