Many remained in Babylon, having established themselves there. About 40,000 of the Jewish aristocracy exiled there, their family and slaves, migrated to Judah on the promise of regaining the ancestral lands they claimed there.
Canaan was the land that was promised to Abram. He left the land of Ur and went to Canaan. When a draught came to the region, his descendants went to Egypt. They returned to Canaan because it was their "Promised Land" where God said he would bless them and they could worship their own way in freedom.
In 538 BCE the Persian king Cyrus permitted Jews to return to Judah.
538 b.C.e.
it was there promised land
he is the persian king who allowed the Jews to return to Judah
The date often quoted is around 538 BCE. Tradition puts this event around 373 BCE.
Cyrus.
A:Yes. In 539 BCE, Cyrus of Persia permitted Jewish exiles to return to Judah.
KING CYRUS THE GREAT conquered the Babylonian or Chaldean Empire and gave the Babylonian Jews permission to return to their homeland of Judah and rebuild their sacred Temple.
Coresh (the Persian King Cyrus).
This event is discussed in the Book of Ezra or in the non-Biblical Cyrus Cylinder.
Cyrus II (Cyrus the Great) freed the Jewish Exiles from captivity
Judah ben Yakar has written: 'Perush ha-tefilot veha-berakhot' -- subject(s): Jews, Jews. Liturgy and ritual, Jews. Liturgy and ritual. Benedictions, Jews. Liturgy and ritual. Hagadah
A:No, very much the other way around. Cyrus the Great (c. 560-530 BCE) defeated the Babylonians in 539 BCE and ordered that the enslaved Jews be allowed to return to Judah if they wished to do so.