What did God charge Cyrus to do after the 70 years of exile were over?
After the seventy years of exile were expired, God charged Cyrus, the Persian king, to issue a proclamation. Cyrus declared that the Lord God of heaven had given him all the kingdoms of the earth and had charged him to build a house in Judah.
Les explains that after the seventy years of captivity in Babylon were expired, Cyrus, the Persian king, came on the scene. He had been named in Jeremiah's writing hundreds of years before. God used Cyrus to proclaim that all the kingdoms of the earth had been given to him by the Lord God of heaven, and that God had charged him to build a house in Judah. The surrounding context also notes that the Medes and Persians destroyed Babylon, and Daniel became the second man in the Persian kingdom.