536 BC · Return
The first return under Zerubbabel
About forty-two thousand returned with Zerubbabel and Jeshua, with silver, goods, and the temple vessels (Ezra 1:7-11, 2:64-65). The Ussher record places the preparations and journey in 536 BC.
📖 Ezra 2:1–3
1Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town, 2accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel: 3the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
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