Israel and the persian empire: Ezra, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, which you possess, appoint magistrates and judges. Ezra 7:25

With the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus the great, many prophecies of the Bible began to come true. The Persian Achaemenid dynasty, beginning with its founder Cyrus, behaved benevolently not only with the Jews exiled in Babylon but with all the conquered nations, marking a great difference with the Assyrians and the Babylonians who made cruelty and violence a way of acting.
The Book of Ezra is framed in this new period in the life of Israel; the kingdoms of Judah and Israel with their corruption and internal problems had been left in the past, and the promised land had become another province of the great Persian empire.
The Sacred Scriptures relates in the Book of Ezra that the first returnees under the leadership of Zerubbabel began the reconstruction of the holy city of Jerusalem and the second temple, a project that to be completed required the spiritual guidance of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah.
In this situation, the work of Ezra, priest and scribe of the law of Moses, began. Ezra was sent by the King of Kings Artaxerxes to Jerusalem, to begin a political and religious reform, established by a royal document, which among other things determined the following:
"And you, Ezra, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, which you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach any who do not know them. Whoever does not obey the law of your God and the law of the king must surely be punished by death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment" Ezra 7:25-26.
Persian domination lasted more than three centuries until the arrival of Alexander the Great, thus marking a great influence on Jewish culture; and Ezra, due to his notable work can be considered one of the founders of Judaism.

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