The Persians :P
Many.
Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans.
They were taken over first by Babylon and then Persia.
They tried to establish stable government, peace, security and prosperity.
They tried to establish stable government, peace, security and prosperity.
Saint Michael was the warrior angle also sometimes called Sabbathiel by the Israelites, Beshter by the Persians, and Mikael by the Mesopotamians
Leviticus 25 is a chapter where the Lord is giving instructions to the Israelites on how they are to treat one another: with kindness and justice.
The Israelites were held captive in Babylonia for several decades. The Persians had defeated the Babylonians, and inherited the Babylonian prisoners, which included the captive Israelites. So now, by order of King Artaxerxes, which we read about in Ezra 7:13, the Israelites were now permitted to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the city. This happened about 455 years before the birth of Christ.
Egyptians, Moabites, Midianites, Philistines (to a limited degree), Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Syrian-Greeks, Romans, and the various nations of the Diaspora.
At first, they treated them with fairness but much more crule as the empire went on.
Achaemenid Persian leaders had incredible tolerance for the religions and local character of the peoples that they conquered. As long as they acknowledged the political sovereignty of the Persians, they were free to worship as they wanted, live where they wanted, work in the fields that they wished, and speak their local languages.