CYRUS THE GREAT

(Also called Cyrus II)

(See also Cyrus Cylinder)

Babylon falls to: it-1 236-237, 566-568; g 5/13 12; si 85, 335-336; gm 123-125; w88 3/1 30-31; w88 3/15 26; w87 9/1 26-27

day: si 335

treatment of city: w89 5/1 3

year: it-1 454, 567-568; w11 10/1 28; si 296

Bible name: w86 1/15 7

Croesus defeated by: wp18.2 3

death: it-1 569; it-2 613; w11 10/1 28

discussion: it-1 566-569; g 5/13 12-13; dp 149-152

Ecbatana falls to: it-1 674

foreshadows Jesus Christ (Isa 44:27, 28; Re 16:12): it-1 569; re 230; ip-2 18-20; w87 9/1 27

Jews released by: it-1 568-569, 800; it-2 1078; si 85-86, 283, 296

temple-building decree: it-2 1078-1079

temple-building memorandum: it-1 569, 674

King of Anshan: it-1 566, 703; ip-1 217

Nabonidus Chronicle: it-1 284, 566; it-2 458-459; si 335

parents: it-2 359

policy toward—

foreign religions: g 2/11 16-17; w89 5/1 3; w88 3/15 27

subject peoples: it-1 148, 569; g 6/12 14; w08 12/15 22; gl 24-25; dp 151-152; si 335-336

prophecies fulfilled by: bhs 23-24; si 119; gm 122-125; w88 3/1 30-31; w88 3/15 27; w87 9/1 26-27

“anointed” of Jehovah (Isa 45:1): it-1 114, 439, 566; it-2 386; ip-2 76-77

conquest of Babylon: lff lesson 3; wp20.1 8; wp18.2 6; it-1 1222-1223; bhs 23-24; w14 5/1 5-6; g 5/13 12-13; g 1/11 12; g 2/11 17-18; w06 6/1 21-22; ip-2 70-72, 76-82, 130; dp 150-151; w97 5/1 9-11; ba 27-28; rs 60-61

foreordained: it-1 856

restoration of Jerusalem and temple: g 5/13 13; dp 151

‘roused from the sunrise’ (Isa 41): ip-2 18-23, 28-29

reign: w86 1/15 7

reign over Babylon:

Cambyses II coregent: it-1 569, 581

first year: it-1 568

how empire was included: it-2 157

start and end: it-1 453; w11 10/1 28

reign over Persia:

start and end: it-1 454; w11 10/1 28

tomb: g 5/13 12; g 2/11 17; gl 25; w88 3/15 29

unites Media and Persia: it-1 566; it-2 359-360, 611-612; w88 3/15 27