The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
The verse belongs to the record and list of the families who responded to Cyrus's decree and offer and returned to Jerusalem to their own land after the captivity. Those early returnees went up with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus. The first two chapters of Ezra record this return from exile under Cyrus and the beginning of the temple rebuilding under his decree.
The total of those who accepted Cyrus's offer is given as 42,360 in all, shown in Ezra 2:1-65 as nearly fifty thousand Jews. The captivity had ended in the sense that all were free to go, even though many remained in Babylon. The passage does not give 457 B.C. as the date for the temple's beginning.
The verse belongs to the record and list of the families who responded to Cyrus's decree and offer and returned to Jerusalem to their own land after the captivity. Those early returnees went up with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus. The first two chapters of Ezra record this return from exile under Cyrus and the beginning of the temple rebuilding under his decree.
The total of those who accepted Cyrus's offer is given as 42,360 in all, shown in Ezra 2:1-65 as nearly fifty thousand Jews. The captivity had ended in the sense that all were free to go, even though many remained in Babylon. The passage does not give 457 B.C. as the date for the temple's beginning.