Page "History of Jerusalem" Paragraph 20

According to the Bible, and partially corroborated by the Cyrus Cylinder, after several decades of captivity in Babylon and the Achaemenid conquest of Babylonia, Cyrus II of Persia allowed the Jews to return to Judah and rebuild the Temple.

The books of Ezra-Nehemiah record that the construction of the Second Temple was finished in the sixth year of Darius the Great ( 516 BCE ), following which Artaxerxes I sent Ezra and then Nehemiah to rebuild the city's walls and to govern the Yehud province within the Eber-Nari satrapy.

These events represent the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible.