The Return from Exile

Stop 1 of 4

Babylon — the edict of Cyrus

Seventy years on, a Persian king signs the liberation: "Whoever among you belongs to his people, let him go up to Jerusalem".

Readings for this stop

• Ezra 1
• Psalms 125

1. 1Babylon — the edict of Cyrus
2. 2The river Ahava — the fast of the road
3. 3Jerusalem — the Temple foundations
4. 4Jerusalem — the walls and the Law