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

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Babylon Place

Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Babylon.

Cyrus Person

(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.