The Babylonian exile lasted approximately 48 years, from 586 to 538 BCE, and ended with the conquest of Babylon in that year by the Persians.

The Book of Haggai was written in 520 BCE some 18 years after Cyrus had conquered Babylon and issued a decree in 538 BCE allowing the captive Jews to return to Judea.

In 538 BCE, the famous Edict of Cyrus was released, and the first return took place under Sheshbazzar.

In the 8th century BCE the Assyrians invaded from the north, followed by the Babylonians, and Jericho was depopulated between 586 and 538 BCE, the period of the Jewish exile to Babylon.

According to the Jewish version of events, when the Judean exile ended in 538 BCE and the exiles began returning home from Babylon, they found their former homeland populated by other people who claimed the land as their own and Jerusalem, their former glorious capital, in ruins.

The project was first led by Sheshbazzar ( about 538 BCE ), later by Zerubbabel and Jeshua, and later still by Haggai and Zechariah ( 520 – 515 BCE ).

Rabbinic chronologists place the date of the destruction of the First Temple-considered the onset of the captivity-to be 3338 HC i. e. 423 BCE or 3358 HC i. e. 403 BCE while modern secular dating for it is 587 – 538 BCE.

The forced exile ended in 538 BCE after the fall of Babylon to the Persian king Cyrus the Great, who gave the Jews permission to return to Yehud province and to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

After the destruction of Solomon ’ s Temple by Nebuchadnezzar II, construction of the Second Temple began under Cyrus in around 538 BCE, and completed in 516 BCE.

According to the Book of Ezra chapter 2, Zerubbabel returned to Jerusalem in the first wave of liberated exiles under the decree of King Cyrus of Persia in 538 BCE.

Regarding Sheshbazzar, he was appointed governor of Judah by the Persian King Cyrus in the year 538 BCE, and was given gold and told to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple.

The accession of Cyrus the Great of Persia in 538 BCE made the re-establishment of the city of Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the Temple possible.

Many, though not all, modern scholars agree that the editing process which produced the Book of the Twelve reached its final form in Jerusalem during the Achaemenid period ( 538 BCE – 332 BCE ), although there is disagreement over whether this was early or late.

While Cyrus the Persian allowed the Jews to return to their homeland in 538 BCE, most chose to remain in Babylon.

* In 538 BCE Cyrus the Great conquers the Median Empire, then Susiana, then Assyria.

Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.

* 538 BC — Cyrus, king of Persia, allows Jews in Babylon to return to Jerusalem.

In 538 BC there was a revolt in Southern Babylonia, while the army of Cyrus entered the country from the north.

A few decades after the fall of the Kingdom of Judah and the Babylonian exile of the Jewish people, approximately 50, 000 Jews returned to Zion following the Cyrus Declaration from 538 BC.

* Cyrus: 538 – 530 BC

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This proposes that the Persians, after their conquest of Babylon in 538 BC, agreed to grant Jerusalem a large measure of local autonomy within the empire, but required the local authorities to produce a single law code accepted by the entire community.

* 539 BC / 538 BC — Death of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon

The name of Dilmun fell from use after the collapse of Babylon in 538 BC.

This proposes that the Persians, after their conquest of Babylon in 538 BC, agreed to grant Jerusalem a large measure of local autonomy within the empire, but required the local authorities to produce a single law code accepted by the entire community.

Thus, it lists Kings of Babylon from 747 BC until the fall of Babylon to the Persians in 539 BC, and then Persian kings from 538 to 332 BC.

According to Gregory of Tours ( 538 – 594 ), Chilperic II was slain by his brother Gundobad in 493, and his wife drowned with a stone hung around her neck, while of his two daughters, Chrona took the veil and Clotilde was exiled-it is, however, assumed that this tale is apocryphal.

The papacy ruled supremely in Europe from 538 A. D. when the last of the Arian tribes was forced out of Rome and into oblivion, until 1798 A. D. when the French general Berthier took the pope captive, which history records a period of 1, 260 years.

They listed 538 summits over 3, 000 feet, of which 282 were regarded as " separate mountains "; the term Munro applies to the latter, while the lesser summits are known as tops.

It earned more than $ 538 million worldwide over the original run and several re-releases, making it the highest-grossing film of 1980.

As of the 2010 census, its population was 538, 479, an increase of 7. 6 % over the previous decade.

Past this interchange, the freeway heads north, crossing over CR 538.

The population was 2, 538 at the 2010 Census, representing a growth of 171 % over the population of 936 recorded during the 2000 census.

In the year 2000, the population was 15, 538, with the population after the 2010 Census being just over 16, 000 people.

The program has an excellent success rate: 84 % abstinence over 538 people between 1997 and 2007.

The largest regional union in Canada, in 2003 the CABC consists of over 62, 000 members in 538 churches and 21 associations across the Atlantic provinces ( New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island ).

US 95 is an undivided two lane highway during most of its length in Idaho, which is over 538 miles ( 866 km ).

Caravan Heart was a top-seller during the time of its release, with over 538, 000 units sold within three months of its release and 593, 000 units sold to date.

The arena seats 19, 000 for concerts, over 18, 500 for Hornets games and 16, 500 for arena football and has 2, 538 club seats and 56 luxury suites.

* Some reservoir Authority in Fayette County, Alabama ( 751 over Amendment 538 )

This plan, while far from perfect, will create or save an estimated 50, 000 jobs in Louisiana, invest over $ 538 million in infrastructure projects for our state, and lay a foundation for long-term growth for our country through innovation and education.

Rimmington sent 538 racially provocative packages to a significant number of persons over a period of years.

In 537 / 538 or 539, he clashed with Mundhir of the Lakhmids over grazing rights on the lands south of Palmyra, near the old Strata Diocletiana.