in the first

Ezra 1:1-3
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: . . .

Cyrus

Isaiah 44:28
who says of Cyrus, 'My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire, ' who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be rebuilt, ' and of the temple, 'Let its foundation be laid.'"

Daniel 10:1
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, who was called Belteshazzar. The message was true, and it concerned a great conflict. And the understanding of the message was given to him in a vision.

that the word

2 Chronicles 36:21
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 25:12, 14
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation. . . .

Jeremiah 29:10
For this is what the LORD says: "When Babylon's seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

Jeremiah 32:42-44
For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them. . . .

Jeremiah 33:10-14
This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted--inhabited by neither man nor beast--there will be heard again . . .

Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.

the Lord stirred

2 Chronicles 21:16
Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabs who lived near the Cushites.

1 Samuel 26:19
Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.'

1 Kings 11:14, 23
Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom. . . .

1 Chronicles 5:26
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day.

Ezra 1:5
So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites--everyone whose spirit God had stirred--prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 13:3-5, 17, 18
I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph. . . .

Isaiah 44:28
who says of Cyrus, 'My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire, ' who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be rebuilt, ' and of the temple, 'Let its foundation be laid.'"

Isaiah 45:1-5
This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut: . . .

Haggai 1:14
So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,

a proclamation

2 Chronicles 24:9
And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 30:5
So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it as a nation as prescribed.