Who was Cyrus?

(Heb. Ko’resh), the celebrated “King of Persia” (Elam) who was conqueror of Babylon, and issued the decree of liberation to the Jews (Ezra 1:1, 2). He was the son of Cambyses, the prince of Persia, and was born about B.

Cyrus first appears in 2 Chronicles 36:22. In this repository’s biblical text, this figure is associated with 19 verse mentions across 4 books, most notably Ezra, Daniel, 2 Chronicles, Isaiah.