Daniel 8:1-27; Daniel 5:1-31; 2 Chronicles 36:22-23; Daniel 9:1-27

In 538 B.C. Cyrus, king of Persia, releases any Jews living in Babylon who want to return to their homeland. (2 Chronicles 36:22-23) His proclamation fulfills Jeremiah's prophecy that the Jews exiled in Babylon would be set free. That prophecy is recorded in a letter that Jeremiah sent some time after the first deportation of Jews from Judah to Babylon in 597 B.C. (Jeremiah 29:10)