2 Chronicles 36:20-22
English Standard Version
20 He (A)took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, (B)and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, 21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had (C)enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate (D)it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
The Proclamation of Cyrus
22 (E)Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, (F)that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, (G)the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
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