Ezekiel 29:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Forty years: see Ezekiel 29:11. Gather, by some eminent acts of Providence toward them, perhaps inclining the generous mind of Cyrus to favour them, and proclaim liberty to them, and under the government of old Areasis, that reigned fifty-five years, saith Diodorus, some ten or twelve of which might be under Cyrus, who had a kindness for the old man; and he, to repair the wastes, obtained and published great privileges for the new replanters. The people; Babylon, Ethiopia, Libya, and other countries, that can be but conjectured to have been receptacles for them.