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Creation year 3384 · Nisan calendar year 937 · Historical date 539 BC · Cyrus

Cyrus takes Babylon

The contemporary Nabonidus Chronicle records Cyrus’s forces defeating Babylonia and entering Babylon in October 539 BC. Scripture names Darius the Median as the immediate recipient of the kingdom; the relationship between that title and Cyrus’s administration remains a separate study question.

King James Version

Daniel 5:30–31

“In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.”

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