The priest, scholar, and scribe Ezra reports that Cyrus decreed that Jehovah’s worshipers could “go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of Jehovah the God of Israel ​ — he is the true God — ​ which was in Jerusalem. ”
५३७ में वह जगह फिर बसाई गई — यरूशलेम के गिरने के ठीक ७० वर्ष बाद । — यिर्मयाह २५: ११, १२; २९: १०.