Ezra 1:2 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 2 “This is what Cyrus the king of Persia has said,+ ‘All the kingdoms of the earth Jehovah the God of the heavens+ has given me,+ and he himself has commissioned me to build him a house in Jerusalem,+ which is in Judah. Daniel 5:28 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 28 “PEʹRES, your kingdom has been divided* and given to the Medes and the Persians.”*+
2 “This is what Cyrus the king of Persia has said,+ ‘All the kingdoms of the earth Jehovah the God of the heavens+ has given me,+ and he himself has commissioned me to build him a house in Jerusalem,+ which is in Judah.